From Our Correspondent
TURA: The job card holders under Chibinang Village Employment Council (VEC) have petitioned the government through the deputy commissioner to constitute a fresh council through elections after their previous elected body was removed by the Selsella BDO.
As many as 476 job card signatories from Chibinang VEC have lodged a complaint with the West Garo Hills deputy commissioner’s office claiming that the original VEC formed way back in 2009 through elections was dismissed and a new body appointed by the Selsella Block Development Officer Dr D Roy without holding any poll.
Following complaints from the public about the credentials of the new body an enquiry was constituted and the findings had recommended for a fresh election to the Chibinang VEC.
However, that election, which was scheduled to take place on April 6, could not take place following complaints from 48 job card holders who have complained about errors in the names of the card holders in the database.
In the light of the deadlock, projects and schemes under Chibinang area have failed to take off rendering several hundred job card holders without any employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, which was meant to provide a hundred days of employment to the villagers.
AYWO demands removal of BDO: Meanwhile, the Selsella unit of the A’chik Youth Welfare Organization has demanded that the government remove the current Block Development Officer accusing him of corruption.
“The low cost housing scheme, IAY homes, Bharat Nirman Schemes have either been abandoned or left half completed under Selsella Block.
Even the MGNREGA funds sanctioned for 2011-12 has not been released till date for work to start,” complained Ishak Marak and Hubert Marak, president and general secretary of Selsella AYWO, respectively.