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Accountability in spending: as NREGS funding rises, audit must improve [1]

The late Rajiv Gandhi famously, or infamously, once claimed that only 15 per cent of the funds allocated to welfare programmes ever reached the intended beneficiaries. The rest leaked enroute, entering the pockets of an assortment of intermediaries.

Publication Date: 
07/02/2011
Business Standard (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) [3], Anti-Poverty Programmes [4], Subsidies [5], Gram Sabhas [6], India [7]

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