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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MNREGA job spike to take some load off Congress in Rajasthan -Shalini Nair

MNREGA job spike to take some load off Congress in Rajasthan -Shalini Nair

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published Published on Apr 29, 2019   modified Modified on Apr 29, 2019
-The Indian Express

At Rs 199 a day, the Central government-notified MGNREGA wage rate for Rajasthan is Rs 26 less than the state’s minimum wage.

Banswara, Bhilwara, Jaipur, Udaipur (Rajasthan):
For four years, Pista Sargara (55), a long-standing job card holder under the MGNREGA, approached her panchayat office in Bhilwara Lok Sabha constituency desperate for any work under the scheme. She was turned away each time. The turnaround came in January 2019 when she finally got some digging work, along with 50-odd women from nearby villages, for a ground-water conservation project taken up by the Shivpur panchayat.

At Rs 199 a day, the Central government-notified MGNREGA wage rate for Rajasthan is Rs 26 less than the state’s minimum wage. On the ground, the pay is half this amount and it comes with a month-long delay. Yet, for Pista and many such as her, any bit of paid work counts. In the season of political grandstanding, Pista knows what she would vote on. Pointing to the ditch she has dug for conserving whatever little rainwater the region receives, she says in Mewari, “Mandir ne khade me nako, mane toh raasan ka gehu do (Temple can go to that pit. I am more concerned about geting my ration).”

Women account for a high 65 percent of the MGNREGA workforce in Rajasthan, and like Pista, many are vocal about benefiting from the recent revival the scheme has seen. In a state where despite losing the Assembly elections, the BJP is far ahead in the race for most Lok Sabha seats, these MGNREGA workers have a reason to root for the Congress.

At every MGNREGA work-site The Indian Express visited, women spoke of why of all government policies, MNREGA mattered the most to them.

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The Indian Express, 29 April, 2019, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/mnrega-job-spike-to-take-some-load-off-congress-in-rajasthan-5699667/


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