The Congress has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled States of not properly implementing the Centrally-sponsored welfare schemes in their respective areas. Even the flagship programmes of the United Progressive Alliance government such as the Horticulture Mission, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the National Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) were ridden with corruption and mismanagement in BJP-ruled States, the party said. "The BJP has seemingly taken a decision not to allow the benefits of the Central schemes to reach the people. Even the grains meant for the poor people are reaching traders and middlemen,' said Congress spokesperson Mohan Prakash here on Thursday. "We have come across instances of large-scale corruption and siphoning off of funds from the Central schemes. The latest instance is the gross misuse of funds meant for Horticulture Mission in Rajasthan,' he added. Citing a report in a local newspaper about misappropriation of funds allocated for the Horticulture Mission in Rajasthan, Mr. Prakash said funds amounting to Rs.100 crore were siphoned off with the connivance of higher authorities. "The fact that the former Secretary, Horticulture, Ranjit Singh Ghatala, who tried to expose the misuse of funds was transferred from the post is indicative of the involvement of Agriculture Minister Prabu Lal Saini,' he charged. "Our allegation is that in this particular case the Chief Minister's response or lack of it when it was brought to her notice in the past only encouraged further corruption,' Mr. Prakash said. "The Government has lost the moral right to continue after this exposure. The Congress is going to take up the issue with the Governor,' he said. If this was what was happening with the Horticulture Mission, the case was no different with the Sarva Shiksha Abiyan (SSA) and NREGA, Mr. Prakash asserted. In SSA, against a sanction for appointing 85,615 teachers during the past five years, Rajasthan till now could appoint only 30,532. Madhya Pradesh during this period appointed 80,316 teachers, Jharkhand 69,385 and Chhattisgarh 36,242, he pointed out. "It is not merely an issue of jobs. The basic idea behind the programme is spread of literacy,' he said. Despite accolades from many quarters, including Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh in the past, Mr. Prakash termed the implementation of NREGS in Rajasthan also as "unsatisfactory': "At NREGA sites labourers are dying of absence of basic amenities and lack of medicines. There is large-scale corruption also in the implementation of the programme,' he said.