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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre ticks off UP on its bid to `steal' NREGA title by Subodh Ghildiyal

Centre ticks off UP on its bid to `steal' NREGA title by Subodh Ghildiyal

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published Published on Jul 8, 2010   modified Modified on Jul 8, 2010


The Centre has protested to Uttar Pradesh over the latter prefixing its name to MGNREGA, the flagship job scheme from the Congress stable.

The Union rural development ministry has asked UP to change the title of a rulebook for its grievance redressal system under the job scheme, saying it has been named after the state when MGNREGA is a central law.

The Mayawati regime has released a rulebook named "UPNREGA grievance redressal system rulebook". The issue came to light during a media blitz of the new rulebook.

In the advertisements, UPNREGA appears just below MGNREGA in advertisements and gives a hint of state's authorship on the scheme. The Centre has not liked it, keen as it is to retain Congress's exclusive claim on a scheme which is said to have wooed the rural poor electorate.

Protesting the move, minister of state Pradeep Jain this week shot off a letter to UP's RD minister, Daddu Prasad. It said, "Since works of MGNREGA are done under a central law and not a local scheme, any project or work or scheme under it should not be given a local name. Only MGNREGA should be used as title for works/documents/rules under this scheme."

To set things right, the letter said, "You are requested that you make necessary change in the title of the rulebook under MGNREGA."

The issue is another in the unending war of credits since the job scheme came into being in 2006. The opposition-ruled states prefixed their names to the central scheme to project it as theirs. The move annoyed the Congress brass which felt that BJP, SP, BSP, JD(U) were only looking to ride on the central funds to gain popularity with the `aam aadmi'. The Centre's repeated pleas to the states to stick to the original name did not bear fruit.

In UPA-2, Congress lost no time in naming it after Mahatma Gandhi. The prefixing of `MG' to `NREGA' was expected to make it difficult for states to change the name.

However, the travails of the Union RD ministry and Congress have not apparently ended with the new ingenious bid by opposition-ruled states. As reported by TOI, the states have launched "sub-schemes" under MGNREGA, thereby using central funds to feed what are its schemes in public eyes.


The Times of India, 8 July, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Centre-ticks-off-UP-on-its-bid-to-steal-NREGA-title/articleshow/6141190.cms


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