Summary:
“Funds to that effect are yet to be finalised,” said Dr Sudhakar Shinde, Chief Operating Officer at MJPJAY Society. MJPJAY then wrote to the state government claiming that funds paid for IEC activities had been under-utilised. When the company refused, MJPJAY paid the premium for June after reducing Rs 63 crore to adjust the IEC funds. Officials from the MJPJAY Society, however, said that in the last two years the funds directed to NIC were not utilised. Officials claim that in the last two years, while the society continued to provide funds, the insurance company did not utilise the funds for IEC work..