names of cricket stars of international fame along with bollywood stars found to be registered under the mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee act scheme in chimbel village in goa

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26/04/2014 … In a startling revelation which could spark involvement of various government authorities along with banks officials and locals various names of cricket stars of international fame along with bollywood stars seems to have been registered under the mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee act scheme in chimbel village in tiswaddi taluka …

Member of the goa parivartan manch led by its convenor advocate yatish naik on Saturday said that names of cricket starts such as ricky pointing, Sachin tendulakar his family, rahul dravid his family, yuraj singh his family, saurav ganguly his family, viendra sehwag, kapil dev his family and goan cricketer saurabh bandekar names has been listed in list of the mgnrega workers list specially resident in chimbel areas of tiswaddi taluka …

The issue doesn’t stop here also the name of bollywood icon like amitabh bachan and his whole family along with his late mother teji bachan figuers in the scheme list along with other names of bollywood stars like amir khan, late singer kishore kumar

Even what is more shocking is that the list also figures the name of one person as Manohar Parrikar in to the list of the scheme who seems to have worked under the mgnrega scheme which pay a daily allowance of 150 per day …

It may be noted that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is an Indian law that aims to guarantee the right to work and ensure livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

Presently under the scheme a daily wage worker get an amount of over rs 150/ per day …

Speaking to media reporters convener of goa parivartan manch advocate yatish naik said that the manch had written to the president of india as well have met the governor of goa shri b v wanchoo to look in to the matter and investigate in to the fictitious names registered in to the mgnrega workers list who have been availing benefits under the fictitious names from the scheme

Adv naik also urged for a thorough inquiry in to the matter which could have involvement of government machinery in connivance with certain bank officials and local people

Meanwhile vice president of goa cricket association dr shekar salkar expressed surprise over the names of cricket stars being figured in to the mnrega list and asked for a inquiry in to the matter