KALACHARA (Dharmanagar), July 18 (TIWN): Half completed Kalachara block building, (with the estimate cost of atleast Rs. 2 crores as per the Govt. record) has been inaugurated on Monday by Tripura Chief Minister. Manik Sarkar went to North Tripura via chopper ride to inaugurate the building.Minister Bijita Nath and CM Manik Sarkar jointly inaugurated the half-done block building. The block was supposed to be inaugurated in the month of April’2016, but inaugurated 2 months later without displaying any details of the utilization of the funds. Further due to media pressure upon the administration, inauguration was repeatedly postponed. Reportedly, the block construction work of Kalachara was started in the year 2013, after laying the foundation stone by Social Welfare Minister Bijita Nath on Sept 2, 2013.Planned construction work was to be completed within 2 years, but after 4 years the work could not be completed by RD Dept due to gobbling of central funds.

Moreover,for any central govt. funded project, RD Dept. must put a ‘Display-Board’ on the construction spot mentioning progress and fund utilization details but no such display board found.Already, the half done building has started to deteriorate. Cracks developed in parts of building. As a result, the half made building has been inaugurated hurriedly as the deadline of the construction work is over long back.

This Kalachara block construction work, without any display board and no observation has been responsible for atleast Rs. 2 crore’s of embezzlement.

But surprisingly Chief Minister has criticized the Central Govt. for depriving Tripura and for not cooperating with the states.

CM also blamed the Modi led Govt. for increasing violence in the name of Hindu religion.

Manik Sarkar has shown how to fool people by blaming Central Govt. who sponsored  thefundings, whereas his (CM’s) own corrupted officials are looting central funds.

Tripura’s maximum blocks are under huge corruption.  But Manik Sarkar said how development has been brought under communist era.

Whether he claims for massive and faster development in rural Tripura, but in actual the massive corruptions held under RD Dept. in various subdivisions has left the villages without survey also.

In 2014-15, atleast 36 blocks were left without audit in Manik Sarkar’s regime in Tripura. The works were going without any record and the funds are using without any calculation under Tripura RD Dept. 

Reportedly, in 2015 under the govt. audit director in 19 blocks audit are done, but the 36 blocks are left without audit, among them in 3 blocks govt. has done special audit. The 3 blocks are: Bishalgarh, Rupaichari and Pehcrathal.

However, surprisingly, these 3 audit spots are the most corrupted areas under RD Dept. For example, Bishalgarh is notoriously infamous  for MGNREGA scam due to the blessings of BDO Bimal Chakraborty, whereas there are so many allegations against Rupaichari block. 

The entire district of South Tripura is under the grip of alleged scam of Rs 10 crore at Rupaichari Block. It was in the year 2015, April 4that the resent REGA workers had broken down the various equipments at Pecharthal RD Block office, complaining for moths of pending wages.

Following the incident atleast Rs. 7 to 8 lakhs  had been sanctioned for the block’s repairing, but almost 1 year has been passed after the incident but the office has not yet been repaired. Allegations are coming against the BDO ParitoshBiswash& the Engineer in-charge for embezzling the total fund. However, a signboard has already been put behind the block in the name of repairing the office but reportedly, not a single work has been done at there.

Union RD Ministry’s Joint Secretary Aparajita Sarangi was smart enough to catch GSG Ayyangar and Manik Sarkar’s manipulation of MGNREGA mandays during her official visit to Tripura. So to teach a lesson to Manik Sarkar’s corruption administration after State Govt’s RD Dept reports with vague numbers of total Man-days in a year(2015-16) and achieving one after one awards with for “Highest Man-days” with that Fake reports, the Central RD Ministry has deducted the fund for MGNREGA (for FY 2016-17).

However, instead of learning any lesson, the left front party here is crying for the full fund (Rs. 1600/- crores) for RD Dept., which Ayyanagar during his visit had asked the Central Ministry recently to sanction for Tripura.But instead of giving green signal to the demanded fund, Union RD Joint secretary has issued a letter to Ayyangar for wrong doing with the Man-day calculations.

Central govt. till date was blindly sending funds to Tripura, as Tripura was recording nicely with highest Man-days. This time Principal Secretary GSG Ayyangar led State RD Dept planned to receive more funds by achieving 100 % ‘FAKE” Man-days, but the Central Govt. caught the thieves under Manik Sarkar’s regime.

In that letter it’s written that the work which was shown 83.79 % completed, in actual the work has completed only 36.4 %. However, the work should be completed before June, otherwise necessary actions will be taken, (written in the letter).

When Ayyangar asked for atleastRs. 1,600/ crores he told the central that this fund would bring sustainable development & arrange livelihood of atleast 30,000 people. This amount would be the full labour-budget.

But unfortunately, Ayyanger’s visit has not been proven fruitful, as central has floored the thief and his master with drastic reduction of funds.

It may be mentioned here that during GSG Ayyangar's last stay in the state, newspaper reports about his involvements in different corruptions were doing the rounds.

During his earlier deputation term on inter-cadre deputation, Dr. Ayyangar, was repatriated to the state over his involvement in the muticrore Hyderabad timers scandal, which rocked the Municipal administration department of Hyderabad. 

Dr GSG Ayyangar was such a corrupt officer that Andhra Pradesh (AP) Govt initiated a vigilance probe, banned him from further service in AP.

The alleged corruption took place while Dr. Ayyangar was working as director, personnel and administration, Singareni Collieries Company Limited. 

Apart from Singareni Collieries scam, Dr. GSG Ayyangar was in the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad and was reportedly responsible for purchasing the timers used for street lights at an exhobribitant price compared to market rates and allegely pocketed Rs 8 crores. 

An IAS officer of 1987 batch Manipur-Tripura cadre, Dr. GSG was one of the most favoured and confidant officer of Chief Minister Sarkar during his earlier stint in the state.

North Tripura and Sepahijala Districts. have been recorded in highest number of corruptions, UnakotiDist however, not lagging behind in corruption.

Already central govt. has noticed the Tripura Govt. for massive corruptions under MGNREGA, but CM has praised his administration for brining rapid developments (?).