05-28-2006, 01:27 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Blacklisted organizations get government funds </b>
<i>CAPART doles out funds to 248 blacklisted organisations </i>
Rajeev Ranjan Roy | New Delhi
<b>In what appears to be a sort of scam, the Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART) recently released around Rs 5 crore to 248 blacklisted voluntary organisations across the country. </b>
Over Rs 22 lakh has been recovered from the blacklisted organisations. These organisations allegedly managed to get funds by resorting to forged documents.
An autonomous body under Union Rural Development Ministry, CAPART is involved in catalysing and co-ordinating the emerging partnership between voluntary organisations and the Centre for sustainable development of rural areas. Ministry officials do not rule out the involvement of CAPART officials in the release of funds to the blacklisted organisations.
<b>Deputy leader of the BJP in the Lok Sabha Vijay Kumar Malhotra and Chandra Mani Tripathi recently raised the matter in Lok Sabha and sought action to recover the funds. </b>"First information reports against the erring organisations and their functionaries have been lodged with the concerned local police stations through the regional offices of CAPART for recovery of misappropriated funds," Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said.
The blacklisted voluntary organisations having received funds are from Andhra Pradesh (25), Assam (1), Bihar (60), Delhi (10), Haryana (15), Himachal Pradesh (1), Jharkhand (2), Karnataka (15), Kerala (3), Madhya Pradesh (9), Maharashtra (5), Manipur (9), Mizoram (3), Nagaland (6), Orissa (5), Rajasthan (18), Tamil Nadu (3), Uttar Pradesh (47), Uttranchal (1), and West Bengal (9).
Major defaulters from Andhra Pradesh are Ambedkar Yuvajana Sangham (Rs 3.07 lakh), Downtrodden Development Society (Rs 5.84 lakh), Health and Welfare Service Centre (Rs 3.45 lakh), Shri Lakshmi Harijan Mahila Mandali (Rs 4.68 lakh), and Velankhani Social and Educational Society (Rs 3.03 lakh), from Bihar Akhil Bharatiya Samajik Arthik Evam Shaikshik Vikas Sansthan (Rs 4.21 lakh), All India Society for Research in Rural Area (Rs 3.35 lakh), Bhumika Vaishali (Rs 8.54 lakh), and Bihar Samajik Vikas Samiti (Rs 6.51 lakh).
There are three blacklisted voluntary organisations from Kerala who got over Rs 7 lakh as grants from CAPART and efforts are on to recover the released funds from them. These are Bapuji Sevak Samaj (Rs 5.55 lakh) in Idduki, P Kunjam Pillai Memorial Mahila Samajam (Rs 65000) in Kollam, and Thrikkadavoor Fish Cultivating Society (Rs 1.20 lakh) in Quillon.
In Madhya Pradesh, nine blacklisted organisations managed to get over Rs 20 lakh as grants out of which over Rs 2 lakh has been recovered. The major recipients of grants among them are Banvasi Adivasi Utthan Seva Samiti (Rs 1.25 lakh) in Reeva, Lok Kalyan Samiti (Rs 2.80 lakh) in Gwalior, Resource Development Institute (Rs 1.54 lakh) in Bhopal, Satpuda Integrated Rural Development Institution (Rs 8.42 lakh) in Bhopal, and Self Employed Women Association (Rs 3.59 lakh) in Bhopal. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<i>CAPART doles out funds to 248 blacklisted organisations </i>
Rajeev Ranjan Roy | New Delhi
<b>In what appears to be a sort of scam, the Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART) recently released around Rs 5 crore to 248 blacklisted voluntary organisations across the country. </b>
Over Rs 22 lakh has been recovered from the blacklisted organisations. These organisations allegedly managed to get funds by resorting to forged documents.
An autonomous body under Union Rural Development Ministry, CAPART is involved in catalysing and co-ordinating the emerging partnership between voluntary organisations and the Centre for sustainable development of rural areas. Ministry officials do not rule out the involvement of CAPART officials in the release of funds to the blacklisted organisations.
<b>Deputy leader of the BJP in the Lok Sabha Vijay Kumar Malhotra and Chandra Mani Tripathi recently raised the matter in Lok Sabha and sought action to recover the funds. </b>"First information reports against the erring organisations and their functionaries have been lodged with the concerned local police stations through the regional offices of CAPART for recovery of misappropriated funds," Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said.
The blacklisted voluntary organisations having received funds are from Andhra Pradesh (25), Assam (1), Bihar (60), Delhi (10), Haryana (15), Himachal Pradesh (1), Jharkhand (2), Karnataka (15), Kerala (3), Madhya Pradesh (9), Maharashtra (5), Manipur (9), Mizoram (3), Nagaland (6), Orissa (5), Rajasthan (18), Tamil Nadu (3), Uttar Pradesh (47), Uttranchal (1), and West Bengal (9).
Major defaulters from Andhra Pradesh are Ambedkar Yuvajana Sangham (Rs 3.07 lakh), Downtrodden Development Society (Rs 5.84 lakh), Health and Welfare Service Centre (Rs 3.45 lakh), Shri Lakshmi Harijan Mahila Mandali (Rs 4.68 lakh), and Velankhani Social and Educational Society (Rs 3.03 lakh), from Bihar Akhil Bharatiya Samajik Arthik Evam Shaikshik Vikas Sansthan (Rs 4.21 lakh), All India Society for Research in Rural Area (Rs 3.35 lakh), Bhumika Vaishali (Rs 8.54 lakh), and Bihar Samajik Vikas Samiti (Rs 6.51 lakh).
There are three blacklisted voluntary organisations from Kerala who got over Rs 7 lakh as grants from CAPART and efforts are on to recover the released funds from them. These are Bapuji Sevak Samaj (Rs 5.55 lakh) in Idduki, P Kunjam Pillai Memorial Mahila Samajam (Rs 65000) in Kollam, and Thrikkadavoor Fish Cultivating Society (Rs 1.20 lakh) in Quillon.
In Madhya Pradesh, nine blacklisted organisations managed to get over Rs 20 lakh as grants out of which over Rs 2 lakh has been recovered. The major recipients of grants among them are Banvasi Adivasi Utthan Seva Samiti (Rs 1.25 lakh) in Reeva, Lok Kalyan Samiti (Rs 2.80 lakh) in Gwalior, Resource Development Institute (Rs 1.54 lakh) in Bhopal, Satpuda Integrated Rural Development Institution (Rs 8.42 lakh) in Bhopal, and Self Employed Women Association (Rs 3.59 lakh) in Bhopal. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->