• Rs 7.98 lakh paid in excess in 13 cases in Bhawanipatna block of Kalahandi

• Three road works costing Rs 15 lakh inflated measurements, resulting in Rs 1.80 lakh of excess payments, while Rs 29.85 lakh spent on un-registered labourers

• In Kalahandi, Rs 0.77 lakh paid to 64 ineligible labourers, while 866 labourers in six gram panchayats of the state underpaid by Rs 0.48 lakh

CHHATTISGARH

• No exact data on households which demanded work

• Job card numbers not mentioned in about 75 per cent of the projects being implemented through other agencies

• Wages paid at Rs 58.73 per day as against rates of Rs 61.37 per day and Rs 62.63 per day, applicable during different periods. Works allocated to other implementing agencies, which did not sent any information regarding expenditure and employment provided What needs to be kept in mind is that these findings are from barely 160 gram panchayats in 20 districts of the four states. A simple extrapolation of similar mismanagement of NREGS funds in all the gram panchayats of all 73 districts of these states would throw up some startling figures, punching more holes in the UPA government’s showpiece.