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"Congress Govt released some 20,000 Crore rupees to UP between 2007 & 2011 for the NREGA scheme, but hardly 40% reached the actual beneficiaries” explained a retired bureaucrat with 40 years of govt experience,
Corruption /leakage #HuaToHua

“This was the infamous Rs 11,000 crore rupees NREGA scam’ during the Mayawati regime, it was systematic loot from the bottom to the top. There were millions of fake job cards created in each district and the NREGA money was syphoned off.”
#HuaToHua & #Bua

“Every poor villager in UP knew about this NREGA scam then, as fake IDs were created &money redistributed among the Sarpanch,Panchayat members & local contractors... ,even as the genuinely poor people were denied work regularly… that is what we were all used to in UP”

“... it is the poor who interact the most with govts, starting from buying food in Ration Shops to sending kids to govt schools &then going to civil hospitals when they have health problems. "

Then the poor got fed up with #HuaToHua and said "Ab Bahut Hua" and voted for Modi in 2014.

"“This is a totally new experience for the poor in UP.They just don’t know how to react when they get free LPG, Ayushman Health Cards & 2000 rupees DBT in their bank a/cs,all without having to pay any bribe or begging the govt official & then having to wait ++

++for months on endlessly to finally get a benefit. The entire interface with the government has changed in the last 5 years”, he finally sums up about the Modi governance paradigm. #BahutKaamHua #BahutAcchaHua #AccheDin4Poor
[Source : 5Forty3 website]

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