By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: Umniuh Tmar Iarbiniaw Dorbar Shnong has ostracized two families of Pynursula after the city-based NGO Civil Society Women’s Organisation (CSWO) filed an FIR against the village council authorities on behalf of two of two job card holders under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) whose signatures were allegedly by the council secretary.
Two job card holders are the members of the two ostracized families.
The CSWO lodged a complaint with the Pynursla police about a case of alleged misappropriation of funds under NREGS by staff of Pynursla Block Development office and secretary of village employment council, who is also the village headman, from 2009 to 2011.
As per the FIR lodged by the president of the organisation Agnes Kharshiing, the secretary of the village employment council of Umniuh, Iarbiniaw Lemon Khongpliar, had allegedly forged signatures of job card holders K Mawkhlieng and R. Khongtiang to avail of their wages.
Mawkhlieng had worked for only 14 days in 2009-10 and 38 days in 2010-11, but the register shows that wages for all 140 days of work had been paid.
The job card holder Khongtiang had not signed in on seven occasions, yet his signature appears in the register for those days, the FIR said.
The daughter of KMawkhlieng, Usidalin Mawkhlieng on Tuesday said, “We found a lot of anomalies in the NREGS implementation after we filed an RTI and accordingly we field an FIR.”
“The Dorbar Shnong today decided to ostracize my family along with the family of R Khongtiang,” she said.
This is not the first time when a family is socially boycotted for protesting such irregularities.
A traditional village court a few months back had ostracized three families of Jongksha village in East Khasi Hills district for filing RTIs which detected anomalies in the NREGS scheme and cast aspersions on village authorities.