CAG report points to lapses in NREGP Ever since launching the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in 2006, the upa coalition government has missed no opportunity to extol its virtues as the country's most significant welfare scheme. Now, it is facing no end of embarrassment as preliminary report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, submitted this January, has pointed out glaring lacunae and lapses in the nregp's functioning across the country. The scope and purpose of the nregp is at the heart of the National Common Minimum Programme of the upa coalition, and made mandatory through parliamentary legislation in 2005. It seeks to provide guaranteed employment, at statutory minimum wages, of 100 days in every financial year to rural households with unemployed adult members pre