Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Nov 21: The Rural Development Department has stopped work under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme in a Kupwara village after contractors were utilising the funds for their personal benefits that too by encroaching a rivulet.
The work was stopped after residents of village Haihama, Chalgund in district Kupwara raised objections over the MGNREGA scheme being utilised by contractors, Mohammad Abdullah Dar and Maqbool Dar, for widening an approach road to their orchard by encroaching a rivulet.
Residents alleged that construction of the additional embankment can lead to flash floods in the area as additional embankment can choke the running stream.
Residents of village Haihama, Chalgund in the frontier district of Kupwara alleged that the contractors are utilising the funds for their personal ends by choking Nallah Balhama.
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