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 verified 2,702 receipts, out of which 1,918 belonged to Sonepat district," the minister said in a statement. The minister said that a three-member committee was constituted to investigate the verified work receipts for three months (November 1, 2024 to January 31, 2025) from six districts of Hisar, Kaithal, Jind, Sirsa, Faridabad and Bhiwani. "The committee found numerous irregularities. Therefore, action has been ordered and the advocate general has been instructed to initiate criminal proceedings against the guilty," the minister said. He said that on reviewing the report it became evident that most of these work receipts were created for fake workers who were receiving benefits under various departmental schemes causing potential financial loss of several hundred crores to the state government. Vij said that since irregularities have been found in the implementation of various welfare schemes for building and other construction workers, he has ordered that physical verification of the work receipts of registered workers be conducted in every district....