December 17, 2024
Sudip Bandyopadhyay’s intervention during the Finance Minister’s reply to the discussion on the Supplementary Demands for Grants – First Batch for 2024-2025, seeking an explanation on the suspension of the funding for MGNREGS and Awas Yojana in Bengal
Madam, what I want to suggest or submit is this. If any corruption happens in any part of the State, why
is the total amount of money being stopped? Where the possibility of inquiry appears or the Central Team and the State Team jointly detected any such area,you should stop sending money over there. But for few places or for one or two places, you are blocking the total money. My request and suggestion to you is to release the amount to the State which has dues from the Centre of more than Rs. 1,00,000 crore as a whole. So, would you kindly take up these two issues – MGNREGS and Awas Yojana? I also want to request you that wherever reports of corruption are there, you should block money over there, but do not stop the full money as a whole for the total State
