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urvashi sharma
Mar 10, 2013, 6:37:24 AM3/10/13
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Spending Rs.12.2 crore to dole out Rs 8.54 crore!
Sunday Mar 10, 2013
Lucknow, March 10 — Has the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh
got its priorities wrong?
Even as the Samajwadi Party (SP) gears up to celebrate its first year
in office, a Right to Information (RTI) query on its flagship scheme -
an allowance for the unemployed - is set to trigger a controversy.
The scheme had created a wave of goodwill in the run-up to last year's
assembly polls and reaped rich electoral dividends to the SP which won
224 seats.
It has now been disclosed that money spent on extravagant functions to
distribute the dole is more than the money given to the programme's
beneficiaries.
In response to a RTI query by activist Urvashi Sharma, the training
and employment directorate has pointed to an expenditure of Rs 12.29
crore on holding functions at various places.
In contrast, the allowance disbursed by the government to the
unemployed youth added up to only Rs.8.54 crore till November 2012.
This means that the beneficiaries of the government's largesse got
some Rs.4 crore less than what was spent on functions, advertisements,
lunch packets, transport, marquees and the like.
Asked to respond to such lop-sided expenditure, a government official
admitted in private that the data was sure to "leave the state
government red-faced".
"This is utterly embarrassing. I hope the right people take note of
this and corrective measures are initiated," quipped the official.
The wastage on these functions becomes even more profound as these
were presided over by the chief minister.
The SP had promised unemployed youths a dole of Rs.1,000 a month.
While some political quarters had questioned the move and asked the
government to create job opportunities instead, the chief minister had
called it a flagship scheme.
The government, within three months of its swearing in, kickstarted
the scheme with fanfare at district headquarters.
Surprisingly, while the employment directorate says Rs.8.54 crore was
distributed between March 15 and Nov 14 in 2012, an official but yet
to be released speaks of Rs.192 crore distributed to 234,240
unemployed.
(Mohit Dubey can be contacted at moh...@ians.in)
IANS This article was distributed through the NewsCred Smartwire.
Original article © IANS / Daily News 2013
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Spending Rs.12.2 crore to dole out Rs 8.54 crore!
Sunday Mar 10, 2013
Lucknow, March 10 — Has the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh
got its priorities wrong?
Even as the Samajwadi Party (SP) gears up to celebrate its first year
in office, a Right to Information (RTI) query on its flagship scheme -
an allowance for the unemployed - is set to trigger a controversy.
The scheme had created a wave of goodwill in the run-up to last year's
assembly polls and reaped rich electoral dividends to the SP which won
224 seats.
It has now been disclosed that money spent on extravagant functions to
distribute the dole is more than the money given to the programme's
beneficiaries.
In response to a RTI query by activist Urvashi Sharma, the training
and employment directorate has pointed to an expenditure of Rs 12.29
crore on holding functions at various places.
In contrast, the allowance disbursed by the government to the
unemployed youth added up to only Rs.8.54 crore till November 2012.
This means that the beneficiaries of the government's largesse got
some Rs.4 crore less than what was spent on functions, advertisements,
lunch packets, transport, marquees and the like.
Asked to respond to such lop-sided expenditure, a government official
admitted in private that the data was sure to "leave the state
government red-faced".
"This is utterly embarrassing. I hope the right people take note of
this and corrective measures are initiated," quipped the official.
The wastage on these functions becomes even more profound as these
were presided over by the chief minister.
The SP had promised unemployed youths a dole of Rs.1,000 a month.
While some political quarters had questioned the move and asked the
government to create job opportunities instead, the chief minister had
called it a flagship scheme.
The government, within three months of its swearing in, kickstarted
the scheme with fanfare at district headquarters.
Surprisingly, while the employment directorate says Rs.8.54 crore was
distributed between March 15 and Nov 14 in 2012, an official but yet
to be released speaks of Rs.192 crore distributed to 234,240
unemployed.
(Mohit Dubey can be contacted at moh...@ians.in)
IANS This article was distributed through the NewsCred Smartwire.
Original article © IANS / Daily News 2013
Read more: http://india.nydailynews.com/business/2722e5eedd7af9b4d012826733ab2a90/spending-rs122-crore-to-dole-out-rs-854-crore#ixzz2N8FA01Ws
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Vinita Vishwas Deshmukh
Mar 10, 2013, 7:03:56 PM3/10/13
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Dear Urvashi
could you send me scanned documents of this RTI request - it seems very interesting
cheers and warm rgds
vinita
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Author of the book `The Mighty Fall' (based on Pratibha Patil post-retirement home scam and Dow Chemicals - success stories through use of RTI)
co-author of the book`To The Last Bullet' (based on Vinita Kamte's expose of the needless deaths of her police officer husband Ashok Kamter along with Hemant Karkare and Vijay Salaskar in 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, through evidence she procured under RTI)
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urvashi sharma
Mar 11, 2013, 12:18:14 AM3/11/13
to Vinita Vishwas Deshmukh, rtimahil...@googlegroups.com
vinitaji,
attachment 1 & 2 are RTI reply papers
attachment 3 : Point no. 3 of RTI request to CS up gov.
PIO CS UP transferred request to labor deptt and labor deptt to the
pio who sent reply as given in attachment 1 n 2
the info was asked for initial 8 months of akhilesh govt.
info asked in nov. 12 reply received after 4 months in march 13
regards
urvashi
> Author of the book *`The Mighty Fall'* (based on Pratibha Patil
> RTI Act'*
>
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- Urvashi Sharma
Contact 9369613513
Right to Information Helpline 8081898081
Helpline Against Corruption 9455553838
http://yaishwaryaj-seva-sansthan.hpage.co.in/
http://upcpri.blogspot.in/
attachment 1 & 2 are RTI reply papers
attachment 3 : Point no. 3 of RTI request to CS up gov.
PIO CS UP transferred request to labor deptt and labor deptt to the
pio who sent reply as given in attachment 1 n 2
the info was asked for initial 8 months of akhilesh govt.
info asked in nov. 12 reply received after 4 months in march 13
regards
urvashi
> post-retirement home scam and Dow Chemicals - success stories through use
> of RTI)
> co-author of the book`*To The Last Bullet'* (based on Vinita Kamte's expose
> of RTI)
> of the needless deaths of her police officer husband Ashok Kamter along
> with Hemant Karkare and Vijay Salaskar in 26/11 Mumbai terror attack,
> through evidence she procured under RTI)
> Compiled and edited a book on RTI for YASHADA, `*Milestone 7: Journey of
> with Hemant Karkare and Vijay Salaskar in 26/11 Mumbai terror attack,
> through evidence she procured under RTI)
> RTI Act'*
> Guest faculty in Sri Balaji Society for teaching Conversational English and
> Communication Skills
> Guest faculty in MIT, School of Government for teaching RTI Act
> Convener, RTI Forum For Instant Information (RFII)
> Convener, Pune Passport Grievance Forum (PPGF)
> Convener, Pune Metro Jagruti Abhiyaan
> My philosophy: *When the nation is gripped with colossal corruption,
> Communication Skills
> Guest faculty in MIT, School of Government for teaching RTI Act
> Convener, RTI Forum For Instant Information (RFII)
> Convener, Pune Passport Grievance Forum (PPGF)
> Convener, Pune Metro Jagruti Abhiyaan
> participate in whatever way you can to cleanse it, for the biggest crime is
> to suffer injustice*
>
--
- Urvashi Sharma
Contact 9369613513
Right to Information Helpline 8081898081
Helpline Against Corruption 9455553838
http://yaishwaryaj-seva-sansthan.hpage.co.in/
http://upcpri.blogspot.in/
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