Special social audit reveals huge variations in fund
disbursement and work completion  Works being taken up under the
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
(MGNREGS) are meant to provide some relief to the rural poor
through allocation of works when there are no farm operations.
A huge sum of Rs. 3,375 crore is being disbursed as wages to the
wage seekers and though there are some success stories like poor
families able to improve their income and some permanent assets
having been created in and around villages, probing into the
implementation of the scheme still brings out some flaws.  The
Department of Rural Development of Andhra Pradesh ordered a
special social audit done in some Agency mandals of the district
following huge variation the sum supposed to have been disbursed
to the wage-seekers, the actual amount they have received or the
work completed.  A visit to Balliguda village in Dumbriguda
mandal adjacent to this famous tourist destination revealed all
is not well. While there a