CBI has been investigating in the NREGS irregularities for the year 2006-07 in 6 districts of Orissa and Rayagada was one of them. District administration Rayagada has right from the start extended fullest possible cooperation right from arrangement of their stay to providing the records for inquiry. The inquiry as such is of cases of the year 2006-07, which date back to five years. There were numerous records of those time which the CBI team asked for but were found missing. Of all these all records could be traced and rebuilt, except one. The case record which the district administration has not been able to trace out inspite of best efforts is of the "Phatamundi to Telingiri" work the year 2006-07 of the Pahadmunda village of Renga GP. It is pertinent to mention that the concerned PEO, Biswanath Nimalpuri, was caught by the district administration in 2010, after an inquiry and missappropriation to the tune of Rs. 50 lakh was unearthed. He was proceeded against and sent to jail subsequently. In the present case of missing record of the NREGS work, the same PEO is involved. BDO Kashipur has said that he had requested the SP vigilance to get it checked whether missing records were in his custody or sent to vigilance court, as all these cases were inquired upon by the state vigilance dept. However this particular record could not be traced there too. The district administration has taken all efforts to rebuild the case record, but without the availability of the manual muster roll of the original record, it is difficult to rebuild the record entirely. Collector Rayagada had instructed the BDO Kashipur to lodge an FIR with the condcerned Police Station and accordingly an FIR has been lodged ans State govt and CBI informed accordingly.
