FOCUS beneficiaries getting fake sms: Tura MDC
Shillong, Jan 22: Tura MDC and BJP leader Bernard Marak pointed out that the FOCUS beneficiaries are getting fake sms on their mobile phones about Rs 5,000 credited to their account but while updating the account, Rs 5,000 disappears and is not reflected in their accounts.
In a statement issued on Sunday, Marak said similar issue is being faced by the old age and widow pensioners and specially abled beneficiaries.
He said the Modi government cleared all dues to the state but everyone is deprived one way or the other.
Some SHG group members who applied for FOCUS’s Rs 5,000 are divided as only one third of the group members are receiving but others are rejected.
“No one is there to clarify the reasons why some of these poor women are deprived as authorities are washing off their hands. The criteria of selecting the beneficiaries is not mentioned anywhere by the authorities” he said.
“Surprisingly, some beneficiaries received SMSes after Model Code of Conduct was declared which we would request to be verified and looked into,” Marak said.
Double engine govt to help state
He said a double engine government will take the state to a new height.
Marak said, “Every 5 years, lagislators talk about development placing huge figures on their annual budgets but in reality, all visible development on the ground are schemes and projects sponsored by the centre government under the leadership of Narendra Modi.”
He said Modi’s double engine goverment is the need of the hour in the state as it would change the whole scenerio of the state.
“Centre approved and funded projects for infrastructure, road, education, health, water and multiple schemes launched to uplift the poor in the state but no acknowledgement was given to the Centre government,” he said.
He pointed out that most of the foundation stones never mentioned about the Ministry from which the fund was sanctioned.
“Even the banners and hoardings which are put up everywhere in the state highlighted Centrally sponsored projects and schemes but nowhere Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s picture was put up with credit and acknowledgement,” he said.
Marak further alleged that some state leaders even went to an extent of shamelessly putting up their own pictures with public money taking credit and advantage of the centrally sponsored schemes and projects.
He said the state leaders also took credit for all flagship programmes which were sponsored by Centre government.
PMGSY, PMAY, JJM, MHIS, PM Kisan, Swatch Bharat and many other schemes which have transformed the state are all centrally sponsored.
He alleged BJP gave so much to the state but leaders of the state looted most of it, he said.