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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Rahul mission against job scheme 'dilution' -Sanjay K Jha

Rahul mission against job scheme 'dilution' -Sanjay K Jha

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published Published on Jan 30, 2016   modified Modified on Jan 30, 2016
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi now plans to reach out to day labourers and tribals like he did with farmers and Dalits last year, raising alleged dilution of the legal framework the UPA government had built for them.

The Congress has drawn up a nationwide campaign against alleged dilution of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which covers the lowest rungs of job seekers. It also plans to forcefully raise the modification of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 - meant to protect the interests of tribals - by the Narendra Modi government. Rahul will lead both campaigns.

The party's central leadership has called all state unit chiefs to Delhi on February 5 for a review meeting on the implementation of MGNREGA. The state units were earlier told to closely monitor implementation of the scheme in all districts and prepare reports to be used as inputs.

They have been asked to celebrate the 10th anniversary of MGNREGA on February 2.

On that day Rahul will be in Bandlapalli village in Telangana's Anantpur district, from where former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi had launched the scheme that for the first time guaranteed work for every household. Rahul is expected to address a rally.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had last February said in Parliament that he would keep MGNREGA alive because it was "living proof" of the "failure" of Congress rule.

On the Forest Rights Act, former forests minister Jairam Ramesh today cited reasons in support of the party's allegation of dilution.

"About 16.7 lakh forest dwellers, predominantly tribals, have received legal titles for the lands they have been residing on and cultivating for decades.... Thousands of villages have received community forest resource rights, ownership rights over non-timber forest produce like bamboo strengthening their livelihoods and food security. A series of actions of the government have weakened the Act," he said.

"The actions include... diversion of forest lands without the consent of the gram sabha, massive plantation in tribal lands.... The decision to open up 40 per cent of the forests for the private sector has created a huge uproar."

Ramesh referred to Menda Lekha, a village in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra that became a symbol of gram sabha empowerment when control of bamboo was transferred to it from the forest department in April 2011. "The gram sabha earned Rs 1 crore but the Maharashtra government again handed over the bamboo control to the forest department."

The Telegraph, 29 January, 2016, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160130/jsp/nation/story_66592.jsp#.Vqyqy1I1t_k


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