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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Tweak job scheme to revive village economy: farmers

Tweak job scheme to revive village economy: farmers

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published Published on Jun 5, 2014   modified Modified on Jun 5, 2014
-The Hindu
 

 

Erode (Tamil Nadu): Farmers here believe the BJP Government's commitment to link agriculture to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) would result in revival of village economy in the long run.

Several public works, particularly those aimed at strengthening water bodies, and improving ecological balance, under the programme are already agriculture linked. The works include digging new agriculture ponds, renovating existing ones and other small water bodies, cleaning canals, strengthening bunds of irrigation tanks. Farmers here say the MGNREGA guidelines need to be tweaked to pave way for the beneficiaries to work in farms owned by individuals willing to share the wage costs.

"The major problem faced by farmers is labour shortage. If the objective is to improve the agriculture sector through the scheme, there is no reason why the scheme should not be altered to enable labourers to work in private farms. Farm owners will be more than willing to pay a share of the wages," said K.V. Ponnaiyan, president, Tamil Nadu Swadeshi Farmers' Association.

In doing so, BPL (Below Poverty Line) beneficiaries will get work for more number of days in a year, farmers reason out. At present, farm owners are unable to find labourers though they are willing to pay wages much higher than the extent paid under MGNREGS.

However, the idea of farmers here do not conform to the guidelines for new works permitted under MGNREGA.

Thee is a norm which states that the individual land owner has to be a job card holder and also work in the project.

Another norm states thus: "Only those components of admissible works that lead to creation of durable assets may be taken up under MGNREGA. Items of expenditure that are recurring in nature and / or do not lead to creation of durable assets, are not permitted under MGNREGA"

At a UGC-sponsored national seminar on ‘Problems and Prospects of MGNREGA' conducted by the Erode Arts and Science College here earlier this year, economics teachers pointed out that the higher proportion of workers enrolled under the scheme to the available works hampers successful implementation of the vital initiative for bridging the income divide.

 


* Farm works should be brought under the scheme

 

* Academics want a mechanism to strengthen it


The Hindu, 4 June, 2014, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/tweak-job-scheme-to-revive-village-economy-farmers/article6080447.ece


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