Chandigarh, July 6 -- Financial irregularities have been detected in the implementation of welfare schemes for building and other construction workers in Haryana, state labour minister Anil Vij said on Saturday.

The minister said that about 11.96 lakh receipts were verified between August 2023 and March 2025 during the verification of 90-day work receipts of labourers which appeared quite impossible. "It is evident that most of these verifications were fake, indicating large-scale corruption. During this period, about 1.45 lakh work receipts were verified in Hisar, out of which a single employee verified 84,741 applications in just three months. In fact, this employee verified 2,646 receipts in a day. Similarly, a Faridabad employee veri...