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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Jharkhand's MGNREGA Workers Need a Lot More Than Political Slogans -Siraj Dutta

Jharkhand's MGNREGA Workers Need a Lot More Than Political Slogans -Siraj Dutta

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published Published on Oct 21, 2017   modified Modified on Oct 21, 2017
-TheWire.in

Despite widespread violations of workers’ entitlements, the BJP government as well as the opposition have shown nothing but apathy.

The BJP-led Jharkhand government has coined a new slogan, “Har haath ko kaam (Give every hand work)” to show its commitment on providing employment to people of the state. The slogan assumes special significance for Jharkhand, where the ratio of working age population migrating to other states was the highest in the country in 2015-16, as per the Economic Survey 2016-17. Issues of unemployment and out-migration are routinely raked up during elections by all three major political parties in the state – BJP, Indian National Congress and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).

According to the fifth annual employment-unemployment survey of 2015-16, the unemployment in the state – pegged at 7.7% – was higher than the all-India average of 5%. In the absence of adequate formal employment opportunities, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which entitles rural households to 100 days of unskilled manual labour every year, continues to be a lifeline for workers in the state.

The implementation of the MGNREGA has had a fairly chequered history in Jharkhand. There have been sporadic initiatives under various governments such as kaam mango abhiyans, pilot social audits, participatory exercises for decentralised planning of schemes and so on to improve the implementation of the Act. Several assets useful for the rural economy such as roads, farm ponds and wells have also been constructed over the years. But large-scale violations of workers’ entitlements, such as the right to get work on demand and wages within 15 days, have always been a routine affair in the state.

Jharkhand has seen six different governments between 2006 (the inception of MGNREGA) and 2014, led primarily by various combinations of the three major parties (BJP, Congress and JMM). Past governments have shown negligible commitment to check the violations of workers’ rights. Some recent initiatives in MGNREGA such as the construction of farm ponds and the Yojana Banao Abhiyan have seen significant involvement from the ruling dispensation. But the low scale of work and the continuing denial of rights under the Raghubar Das government since it came to power in 2014 indicates that political apathy towards MGNREGA workers continues.

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TheWire.in, 19 October, 2017, https://thewire.in/188566/jharkhand-mgnrega-implementation-bjp/


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