India, May 22 -- Odisha Vigilance on Thursday arrested Assistant Project Director and three other officials of Office of Rayagada Project Director Watershed for alleged embezzlement of government funds under NREGS.

The accused persons were Rajendra Nath Naik, Asst. Project Director- cum- Project Implementing Agency (APD-cum-PIA) (Class-1); Jogendra Khosla, Soil Conservation Overseer; Deepak Kumar Sahoo, Soil Conservation Overseer and SriKumar Nayak, Soil Conservation Extension Worker - of the office of Project Director (PD), Watershed, Rayagada.

During verification by Odisha Vigilance on allegations of misappropriation of government funds without excavation of Farm Ponds under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme...