Some of the former and present Members of National Advisory Council ( “Jholawalas” in colloquial parlance ) have been running NGOs and pocketing government grants, year after year, without producing the requisite expenditure and receipt statements, Performance-cum-achievement reports and audited statements of expenditure.
Some prominent Members connected with NGOs, have been: Farah Naqvi is one of the founders of Nirantar (a Delhi-based NGO working on gender & education), Deep Joshi---NGO guy, Mirai Chatterjee--director of SEWA, Ashis Mondal--NGO guy.
The "brilliant" scams-cum- schemes like MNREGA are NAC’s mastermind. The Council headed by Sonia Gandhi, as the extra-Constitutional body, has been trying to emerge as an alternative to the union Council of Ministers. It is the de facto PMO. All ministers owe allegiance to the Chairman NAC who enjoys the status and privileges of a Cabinet Minister with Z+ security to boot.
During the NDA regime, the PM House was all powerful,at least, more than the then PMO. Under the UPA regime,10 Janpath is more powerful than the PMO-PM House-24 Akbar Road combine.Worse,with zero accountability for the Congress supremo. There are layers of shields comprising of Ministerial, Prime Ministerial,and the Congress "Chaatukars" to protect her. The so-called Steel frame of bureaucracy has failed ,and failed irreparably.
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