Hoshiarpur- Those who talk about honesty and zero tolerance against corruption, their work is corrupt and unconstitutional. In protest against the excesses being done with MNREGA Mates and the corruption being spread by MNREGA officials and openly remaining absent from offices in connivance with the government, MNREGA Mazdoor Andolan and Mazdoor Party staged a dharna outside the Mini Secretariat and later handed over a memorandum of demands to Additional Deputy Commissioner Mr. Rahul Chaba.
He said that he had written a letter to the Honorable Chief Secretary Punjab on July 14, 2024, demanding an inquiry by the Block Development and Panchayat Officer Block-1 for not following government orders, harassing Mates and stopping the investigation of corruption cases. But the investigation against the BDPO is stuck in the middle. The government is encouraging the officers who flout government orders by giving them an opportunity to commit corruption and excesses.
Dhiman said that BDPO Block-1 does not implement the orders of his senior officers. Actually, there is the blessing of the government machinery behind this. The orders of the Honorable Additional Deputy Commissioner (Development) have been disregarded. Which is completely unconstitutional and Lokpal MNREGA is a constitutional post and his orders are also not being taken care of. In his 30 years of tenure, he has seen such indiscipline for the first time. Even the top officials are showing helplessness. All this is going on unconstitutionally and the government itself is promoting unconstitutional works.
Dhiman said that our constitution does not allow us to snatch the rights and work of one person and give it to another. Nepotism should end in the Gram Panchayats. Dhiman said that all the evidence should be shown to the Hon'ble Additional Deputy Commissioner about the illegal presence (geo tag) of MNREGA workers of Allahabad on Kandi Canal and working near the office of Zila Parishad, BDPO Block-2 and said that this business of corruption and corruption is going on openly. The officers who are enjoying themselves by doing such corruption in BDPO Block-2 office are getting full support of the government. All this is happening in Hoshiarpur Assembly constituency.
Dhiman said that the Chief Minister of Punjab is talking about zero tolerance towards corruption and in his own government offices, corruption is happening openly in MNREGA works. The corrupt officers who are themselves corrupt are also giving others a chance to be corrupt. This is also having a bad effect on honest employees. They have only one thing in their mind that the government is theirs and we are the people of the government and no one can do anything to us. When the sharecropping system is in force, justice and transparency are like shooting an arrow in the dark.
Corruption has badly affected the work of Panchayati Raj Institutions and MNREGA. That is why the best schemes of MNREGA are failing badly. Schemes like MNREGA have also been badly affected due to corruption. Priority is being given to giving work to favourites in MNREGA. Dhiman said that if discrimination is done with MNREGA mate through bandh, then a movement will be started. He said that BDPO Block-1 should be transferred immediately. Block-1 President Gurbakhsh Kaur, Poonam Jasrotia, Gurbachan Singh, Rakesh Bala, Kulwinder Kaur, Saroj Bala, Charanjit Kaur, Rajni Bala, Baljit Kaur, Resham Kaur, Dharam Devi, Manjit Lal, Sudesh Kumari etc. were present on this occasion.