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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Graft claims in MGNREGA squeezing poor workers, millions unpaid for months -Himanshu Nitnaware

Graft claims in MGNREGA squeezing poor workers, millions unpaid for months -Himanshu Nitnaware

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published Published on Aug 9, 2022   modified Modified on Aug 16, 2022

-Down to Earth

Zero funds to Bengal, Lakshadweep this year, Centre admits in Parliament; activists ask to use pre-existing mechanisms to handle graft

Millions of workers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) have not received wages for months. Workers from West Bengal are especially affected, with 13.2 million people unpaid for seven months. 

Bengal is the only state that received no funds under the 100-day work scheme in this fiscal year, Niranjan Jyoti, the Union minister of state for rural development, told the Parliament as reported by the daily Times of India.

A three-day protest at the national capital’s Jantar Mantar was also organised by MGNREGA workers earlier this month. Workers from across the country claimed that they hadn’t been paid for months, with some payments dating back to April 2020.

Trinamool Congress member of Parliament Jawhar Sircar had posed the question in the Rajya Sabha last week. Lakshadweep, a Union territory, has not received any funds either. However, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan have already been given Rs 40,000 crore. 

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Down to Earth, 9 August, 2022, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/governance/graft-claims-in-mgnrega-squeezing-poor-workers-millions-unpaid-for-months-84229


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