Nitish dialled toll free number 18003452244 and sought some basic information. This call centre will provide information and register complaints. Later on, people can seek information about job and the centre would tell them where they could get the work in their areas.

The e-Shakti project had been launched about eight months back as pilot project in Paligunj in Patna district. Now it has been started in 15 blocks insix districts and very soon the entire state will be covered by this scheme.

Nitish said each family which wants to work has to be given 100 days work in a year and this scheme is mainly for the unskilled labourers. But, he said, there have been largescale complaints not only in Bihar, but across the country. "We are taking help of information technology to prepare e-muster roll because the main corruption was in making fake muster rolls to draw money," he said and added that this has been done for the first time by a backward state like Bihar.

He also recalled that a job card had been made in the name of a government servant. But after the issue of smart card to labourers such corrupt practices could be curbed effectively, he said.

Rural development minister Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha said that the biometric e-Shakti cards will be introduced and distributed to an estimated three crore people falling under NREGA over a period of next four years. This card will contain photograph, fingerprints and other details of the card owner and it will ensure the identity of the beneficiaries and would leave no room for discrepancies.