{"id":796,"date":"2025-08-20T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:48:00","slug":"alleged-water-tanker-scam-versus-the-publics-real-needs-in-rewa-and-mauganj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/hi\/alleged-water-tanker-scam-versus-the-publics-real-needs-in-rewa-and-mauganj\/","title":{"rendered":"\u092d\u094d\u0930\u0937\u094d\u091f\u093e\u091a\u093e\u0930 \u0914\u0930 \u091f\u0948\u0902\u0915\u0930 \u0918\u094b\u091f\u093e\u0932\u093e \u092c\u0928\u093e\u092e \u091c\u0928\u0924\u093e \u0915\u0940 \u0905\u0938\u0932\u0940 \u091c\u093c\u0930\u0942\u0930\u0924\u0947\u0902"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether in Rewa or in Mauganj district, MPs and MLAs had for years been distributing water tankers worth crores of rupees. But the big question was: which gram sabha had demanded and proposed tankers? If there was no gram sabha proposal, why and on what basis were tankers given?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vs-886b56cd-inline.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Water tankers in the Rewa-Mauganj region\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vs-886b56cd-inline.jpg 290w, https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vs-886b56cd-inline-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>On investigation, it emerged that in many panchayats 10-15 tankers were shown on record, but tankers never reached the ground. The same suppliers kept sending old tankers around, passing them off as new. This was a scam worth crores, the report alleged.<\/p>\n<p>The latest case concerned Rampur in Naigarhi Janpad Panchayat. A viral list showed two tankers, though 10-15 tankers had already been reported as allotted. The reality was that the sarpanch himself admitted only one tanker had been received up to then. Where the rest went, nobody knew.<\/p>\n<p>Convener of the August Kranti Manch, Kunj Bihari Tiwari, demanded a high-level inquiry committee into the entire matter. He said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot even a hearse van is being provided despite public demand, while a crores-worth game is being played in tankers. Poor families are still forced to carry their dead on shoulders, handcarts or bicycles; this is a shame for the entire region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Naigarhi Janpad Panchayat president Mamta Kunj Bihari Tiwari said the demand for a hearse van had been made by writing to the Rewa Collector through former in-charge minister Bisahulal, but no approval had been received up to then.<\/p>\n<h3>This made it clear that<\/h3>\n<p>the public\u2019s real needs were being ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Public money was allegedly being sunk into tankers through corruption and fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The poor and common man was still deprived of a basic facility (a hearse van).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u092d\u094d\u0930\u0937\u094d\u091f\u093e\u091a\u093e\u0930 \u0914\u0930 \u091f\u0948\u0902\u0915\u0930 \u0918\u094b\u091f\u093e\u0932\u093e<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vindhyasatta.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}