During the corona period while financial condition of the people across all walks of life is miserable, in the first phase scrutiny, as many as 5,525 beneficiaries of the KALIA scheme in the district were identified as ineligible.
These beneficiaries were served notices by the Agriculture Department asking them to refund the sum of money.
With the available data in the department, it is found the highest number of ineligible beneficiaries are from Remuna block with 1,150, followed by Sadar (879) and Bahanaga (567). The ineligible beneficiaries have been detected from 12 blocks.
While the ineligible beneficiaries are worried how to refund money in the current pressing time, some activists have targeted the Government alleging that during poll time they were lured by the ruling party and now the Government was cracking whips on them.
The officials responsible for the mistakes or flaws in selecting the beneficiaries should be taken to task and the amount should be recovered from their salaries rather than from the beneficiaries, they demanded.
District Agriculture Officer Prasanna Mahapatra stated that notices to the ineligible beneficiaries had been served and action would be taken as per the instruction of the Government.
