Patna - It is perhaps the weirdest news or may be an exemplary example of corruption that passes all human imagination. In Bihar 298 women claim to give birth two or five children in a span of 60 days - the authenticity is perhaps doubtful but at least the government incentive scheme shows the record right.
According to Bihar government's Janani Suraksha Yojana, a women gets around Rs.1,000 when she delivers a child. However, the scheme goes upturn and government has to pay whopping Rs.6.6 lakh as incentive to 298 women who claimed to be a mother of new born infants. The report is published by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) that exposes a different type of corruption in the state.
This pandemonium was found in different districts in the year 2008-09. According to CAG report, the districts of Bhagalpur, East Champaran, Gopalganj, Kishanganj and Nalanda, had all those mothers who bore two to five babies at the span of 60 days.
"The concerned officials paid incentives under the Janani Suraksha Yojana to these women two to five times in 60 days," the report says.
The unfortunate part of the story is, the genuine mothers who needed the incentive were denied. The report says, 470,307 new mothers, 97,146 were not provided cash incentives under the Janani Suraksha Yojana for want of funds.
Opposition leaders attacked the state government for the corruption.
"All this is happening in Bihar when Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is claiming good governance. This is just a trailer of the unbelievable corruption in implementation of welfare schemes," Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) state president Abdul Bari Siddiqui said.
According to Bihar government's Janani Suraksha Yojana, a women gets around Rs.1,000 when she delivers a child. However, the scheme goes upturn and government has to pay whopping Rs.6.6 lakh as incentive to 298 women who claimed to be a mother of new born infants. The report is published by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) that exposes a different type of corruption in the state.
This pandemonium was found in different districts in the year 2008-09. According to CAG report, the districts of Bhagalpur, East Champaran, Gopalganj, Kishanganj and Nalanda, had all those mothers who bore two to five babies at the span of 60 days.
"The concerned officials paid incentives under the Janani Suraksha Yojana to these women two to five times in 60 days," the report says.
The unfortunate part of the story is, the genuine mothers who needed the incentive were denied. The report says, 470,307 new mothers, 97,146 were not provided cash incentives under the Janani Suraksha Yojana for want of funds.
Opposition leaders attacked the state government for the corruption.
"All this is happening in Bihar when Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is claiming good governance. This is just a trailer of the unbelievable corruption in implementation of welfare schemes," Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) state president Abdul Bari Siddiqui said.
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