Probe ordered after Deepika, Dia's images appear on MGNREGA cards

Government authorities have ordered an enquiry after several MGNREGA cards were discovered in MP's Khargone district with images of Bollywood actors, Deepika Padukone, and Dia Mirza. The issue was brought to light by RTI activist Sandeep Madahar who suspects that it is a well-planned scam to siphon off public money. The names and addresses are real on about a dozen of job cards but the photographs are of the two actors instead of the actual beneficiaries. Madahar revealed upon visiting the village he found that the people were hardly aware of renewal of their cards and that the serial numbers on the new cards didn’t match with that of their old cards. None of them had even applied for the renewal.