By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The Civil Society Women’s Organization (CSWO) in an open memorandum to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has urged him to extend his stay in the State so that he can understand the conditions of roads in the rural areas constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), which was launched by the Centre to provide connectivity to unconnected rural habitations.
“Most of these roads are only in names and the rural areas are still unconnected, and we would appreciate if the Prime Minister could order a high-level inquiry into the scam involved in PWD,” CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing said.
Kharshiing stated that the Congress party has promised in its manifesto that 1 lakh jobs will be provided to the youths but the same party is not punishing those involved in tampering marks of candidates who had been selected for the post of assistant LP teachers.
The CSWO also wanted the Prime Minister to know that while his party men have become crorepatis, the common man has been made to struggle to make both ends’ meet.
The Organization also said that the party men have nexus with the police force and they are using them to protect politicians and bureaucrats, while the public has to face the brunt of violence, harassment and inequality.
The CSWO also wanted to know from the Prime Minister why the party men were trying to alienate the farmers from their lands, and why the Meghalaya Land Transfer Act was being vitiated by them.
The Organisation also apprised the Prime Minister that the party fund collected from Meghalaya is mostly garnered at the cost of the environment.
The CSWO also said that there are major scams in health and social welfare schemes like mid-day meal, ICDS, SSA, PDS, PMGSY, NOAPS, MNREGS, among others and sought his intervention into the matter.