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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MGNREGA: Central squeeze to cost 30 lakh Bengal families -Basant Kumar Mohanty

MGNREGA: Central squeeze to cost 30 lakh Bengal families -Basant Kumar Mohanty

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published Published on Dec 27, 2022   modified Modified on Dec 27, 2022

-The Telegraph

No other state has ever been denied funds for such a long period under the scheme, which provides for up to 100 days of paid, unskilled work to every rural household in a year

New Delhi: The Centre’s decision to stop funds to Bengal under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act will have denied job opportunities to 30 lakh rural families in the state this year, a study released on Monday by a research group suggests.

Another report, by a civil society organisation, has said the stoppage of rural job scheme funds to Bengal for the past one year — the last tranche of money came on December 26 last year — has led to widespread migration of rural labour.

The Centre has said funds will not be given until Bengal acts on the numerous instances of corruption in the scheme unearthed by a  fact-finding team it had sent to the state last year.

Trinamul MPs have alleged discrimination, telling Parliament this month that Bengal had sent action-taken reports, but the Centre says the action has not been adequate.

No other state has ever been denied funds for such a long period under the scheme, which provides for up to 100 days of paid, unskilled work to every rural household in a year.

A study by private research group LibTech India, titled “Status of MGNREGA employment and wages in West Bengal”, has found that an average 49.25 lakh rural families had availed work under the scheme in each of the pre-Covid years of 2018-19 and 2019-20.

This yearly average rose to 77.81 lakh families in Covid-struck 2020-21 and 2021-22 but plummeted to 16.2 lakh families by December 18 this year, covering eight-and-ahalf months of the current financial year.

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The Telegraph, 27 December, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/mgnrega-central-squeeze-to-cost-30-lakh-bengal-families/cid/1906070


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