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Govt to conduct audits to check corruption in MNREGA
October 15, 2012
Expressing concern over complaints of corruption in MGNREGA projects, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the government has decided to conduct audit of ten per cent of villages on a random basis every year.
Speaking to reporters, Ramesh said, "I am concerned about complaints of corruption in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme from various states. At some places, payments were made towards wages in the names of persons who were dead".