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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Activists Flag ‘Erosion of Confidence’ in MGNREGA for Drop in Job Demand -Ronak Chhabra

Activists Flag ‘Erosion of Confidence’ in MGNREGA for Drop in Job Demand -Ronak Chhabra

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published Published on Sep 22, 2022   modified Modified on Sep 26, 2022

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Kicking off a 3-day nationwide campaign on Wednesday, NREGA Sangharsh Morcha cited “derisively low budget allocation” and “long delays in wage payments” as reasons for turning many rural workers away from the employment guarantee scheme.

New Delhi: Days after the Centre cited the drop in demand for work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to suggest stability in the labour market, rural workers and social activists, as part of a three-day nationwide campaign, attribute the said decrease to inadequate funding for the scheme.

The lack of available funds with the States has led to the lesser generation of person-days of work, along with delays in wage payments, they say. This has, subsequently, resulted in an “erosion of confidence” of the job-seekers in the scheme, according to them.

“Derisively low budget allocation, unremunerative NREGA wages, coupled with long delays in wage payments, withholding wages have turned many rural workers away from the employment guarantee programme,” said NREGA Sangharsh Morcha (NSM) in a statement, as it began a three-day nationwide campaign namely, “Kaam Do Abhiyaan”, on Wednesday.

The morcha is a national-level network of organisations and activists who work with labourers of the rural employment guarantee scheme. Under the campaign, thousands of rural workers will be carrying out demonstrations at village and district levels in 13 States including Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, and Gujarat, among others.

Aimed to guarantee the ‘right to work’ in rural areas, MGNREGA is a scheme under which at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year is provided to at least one member of every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

The morcha argued that while MGNREGA played a crucial role in supporting the rural population during the Covid-19 pandemic, “it has instead become fruitless, exploitative labour, where workers who have put in honest hard work, have to wait for their wages endlessly.”

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Newsclick.in, 22 September, 2022, https://www.newsclick.in/Activists-Flag-Erosion-Confidence-MGNREGA-Drop-Job-Demand


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