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The Odisha Vigilance on Thursday apprehended four officers, including the Assistant Project Director of the Watershed Department, on charges of embezzlement of government money over Rs 20 lakh under NREGS.
The arrest was made on the allegations of misappropriation of government funds without excavation of farm ponds under NREGS in the Kashipur block of Rayagada district, following a verification by Odisha Vigilance.
During verification, four accused persons, namely Rajendra Nath Naik, Asst. Project Director- cum- Project Implementing Agency (APD-cum-PIA)( Class-1), Jogendra Khosla, Soil Conservation Overseer, Deepak Kumar Sahoo, ...