In the Vidhan Sabha session the Opposition brought up the issue of alleged corruption worth ₹100 crore in Dahod district under the MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) scheme.

Congress leader Amit Chavda claimed the involvement of the minister's family in the corruption and demanded an investigation by an SIT (Special Investigation Team) and vigilance.

Kunvarji Halpati, Minister of State Labour and Employment assured a thorough investigation into the matter. He also said that it would be later decided whether to hand it over to vigilance or not.

As per Chavda, in Kuva village of Devgadh Baria, 44 roads spanning 17 km are approved under the MGNREGA scheme, similarly, 33 roads that are 13 km long have been approved in another village, Redhana. A large amount of corruption has been committed in all these works, claimed Chavda.

The allegations levelled at the authority claim that these are works worth about ₹47 lakh. In which work is approved, not a single rupee of work is done on-site, however, the bills are generated, money is paid, and corruption of crores of rupees takes place.

The Congress demanded from the government that in the last three years, corruption worth more than ₹100 crore has taken place despite repeated representations with evidence that corruption is going on in the MGNREGA scheme in the entire Dahod district, no investigation or action has been taken till date.

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