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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Joshi counters charge of packing NREGA body with Cong MPs

Joshi counters charge of packing NREGA body with Cong MPs

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published Published on Sep 16, 2009   modified Modified on Sep 16, 2009

NEW DELHI: A combative rural development minister CP Joshi has defended packing a key NREGA advisory body with Congress MPs, saying he could not give space to people who were opposed to the UPA agenda.

Joshi was battling questions on why only Congress MPs and social activists were made part of the Central Employment Guarantee Council when the RD ministry could have made it politically inclusive.

Rejecting the charge, Joshi said it was a political government and the mandate was for Congress. "It (nomination) is upto me. The government works for UPA agenda and I cannot give space to those who don't agree with our programme."

The blunt reply came as Joshi said the claim of CEGC having been made a loyal bunch was unfounded since the same people levelling this charge were also saying that social activists in CEGC were critical of his work. "How can the Council be packed with partymen while they are also criticising me?" he asked.

Joshi was speaking to reporters on the achievements of his two ministries -- RD and Panchayati Raj -- during the first three months of UPA government.

Amid all the hype about NREGA and convergence as also reports of corruption in it, Joshi announced that he would tour every state to check theimplementation of NREGA. Taking heed of comments of the Chief Justice of India that there was corruption in the job guarantee programme, he said he would hold a workshop with members of the judiciary and seek their suggestions on what was to be done to plug the loopholes.

While the minister highlighted the decision to give 50% women's quota in panchayats as an achievement, saying it would be cleared by Parliament in the next session, he was sceptical of the fate of the Bill regarding land acquisition which has been redflagged by Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee. "The cabinet has cleared the Bill and when to introduce in it Parliament should be addressed to the parliamentary affairs minister," he said.


The Times of India, 16 September, 2009, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Joshi-counters-charge-of-packing-NREGA-body-with-Cong-MPs/articleshow/5015579.cms
 

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