UPA chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi has asked the authorities to look into the complaints of corruption in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA, the flag ship program of the UPA Government to guarantee jobs. She along with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attended the presentation of awards during the inauguration of the MGNREGA Sammelan, 2012 in New Delhi on Thursday.
“Corruption in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) is a great injustice to the country and a crime in respect of the Father of the Nation after which it is named. We cannot ignore the complaints that are coming regarding the irregularities and corruption in the scheme,” said Sonia Gandhi. She expressed concern over the delay in the payment of wages to MGNREGA workers and said there was a need to ensure that they got their due remunerations, timely.
