A fake list of beneficiaries and allegations of misuse of Rs 20 lakh allotted for development in a remote floating village under the government’s Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) scheme has raked up a major controversy in Manipur’s Bishnupur district.
The alleged scandal came to light when environmental activist Ram Wangkheirakpam noticed a photograph posted by the District PMAGY Convergence Committee, Bishnupur showing “Prabhat Pheri (Morning Walk)” at a school made of bricks in the Champu Khangpok village, the only natural floating village on earth with 134 hutments. The village is one of the floating biomasses called phumdis in the middle of the iconic Loktak Lake. Nearly 400 residents live in this village.