SHILLONG:The question of maintaining transparency and efficiency in the implementation of centrally sponsored schemes is perhaps going out of hand with the interference of influential people including politicians.
Many irregularities in the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) have been unearthed and other centrally sponsored schemes are no exceptions.
Similarly, the adamant attitude of the concerned authorities to check such irregularities in the implementation of the Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY), a centrally sponsored scheme for providing BPL families with home and shelter has deprived many deserving lots of their share.
It is learnt from sources that many guidelines of this scheme has been flouted .
It may be mentioned that the IAY which was introduced in the year 1986 by the Central government aimed at providing home and shelter in the rural areas for the poor among the poorest.
However, this is not the case in the rural areas where the scheme is handed over to a committee, the Block Development Monitoring Committee (BDMC) which identifies and selects the beneficiaries.
Sources said that the BDMC is being dominated by influential persons who have close links either with politicians or with political parties which are in the helm of affairs.
