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There are 3,477 “ghost” beneficiaries of the Karnataka government’s Gruha Lakshmi strategy successful Dakshina Kannada, and implicit ₹3 crore has been transferred to their slope accounts adjacent aft their deaths, said Bharath Mundoi, president of Dakshina Kannada District Guarantee Schemes Implementation Committee, successful Mangaluru connected June 16.
Speaking with The Hindu aft chairing a gathering astatine the zilla panchayat to reappraisal the implementation of the schemes, Mr. Mundodi said determination were 3.87 lakh beneficiaries of the Gruha Lakshmi scheme. Under this scheme, the authorities deposits ₹2,000 each period into the slope relationship of the pistillate caput of a household.
Regarding the 3,477 “ghost” beneficiaries, Mr. Mundodi said, “This is little than 1% of the full Gruha Lakshmi beneficiaries.” He added that ₹3.34 crore has been credited to the “ghost” beneficiary accounts. This has travel to airy pursuing an probe by officials aft the State authorities aboriginal this twelvemonth flagged the transportation of ₹22 crore to slope accounts of “ghost” beneficiaries.
Mr. Mundodi said helium has asked territory officials to enactment with the implementation committee members to probe however these accounts person been used. Action has to beryllium taken, successful consonance with slope authorities, to determination the Gruha Lakshmi wealth from these accounts backmost to the government. Wherever wealth has been withdrawn from these accounts, the magnitude should beryllium recovered from household members of the “ghost” beneficiaries, helium added, stating that officials person been directed to region “ghost” beneficiaries from the database of Gruha Lakshmi beneficiaries.
“We were the archetypal territory to constituent retired that “ghost” beneficiaries were getting the money. We person to beryllium the archetypal territory to instrumentality the credited amount,” Mr. Mundodi said.
On different guarantees
Mr. Mundodi directed the officials to instrumentality enactment towards providing employment opportunities to unemployed youths who person received a monthly unemployment allowance nether the Yuva Nidhi strategy for the past 2 years. Officials said that of the 7,734 youths who were registered nether the scheme, 6,179 person received an allowance truthful far.
Mr. Mundodi said KSRTC conductors should behave respectfully with women travelling escaped nether the Shakti strategy successful KSRTC buses. He projected escaped question for women successful inter-State KSRTC buses till the Karnataka border.
He asked ration store operators to administer atom nether the Anna Bhagya strategy to beneficiaries successful a liable way.
