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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | What demonetisation-induced migration has exposed in Uttar Pradesh: A rural job scheme in shambles -Dhirendra K Jha

What demonetisation-induced migration has exposed in Uttar Pradesh: A rural job scheme in shambles -Dhirendra K Jha

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Panchayats have no funds to hire and pay hordes of workers forced to return home from cities.

Demonetisation has exposed the fragile state of the government’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. In Uttar Pradesh, in particular, an ever-burgeoning army of migrant labourers returning to their villages for lack of work in the cities, as a direct result of the cash crisis, has led to a mad scramble for employment under the government programme. However, panchayat officials say they cannot take in anymore workers as the scheme is already facing a crippling fund crunch, with villagers yet to get their dues from six months ago.

“The job guarantee scheme has stopped functioning,” said Sewaram, sarpanch of Bhareh village in the state’s Etawah district. “The MNREGA fund has not come for several months now. People demand jobs but we can’t do anything.”

Some 500 km away in eastern Uttar Pradesh, the sarpanch of Kajrinandpur village in Ambedkar Nagar district, Pravin Sharma, is in a similar bind. “In my village, nearly 200 people have MNREGA job cards,” he said. “Nearly 100 of them are yet to get wages for 20-25 days of work they did about six months back. How can we enrol new labourers when there is no fund?”

While the demand for work is growing by the day, employment under the job scheme plummeted nationwide in November, coinciding with the demonetisation of high-value notes. The number of households getting work dropped 23% compared to October, the Times of India said on Tuesday. The report attributed the drop in employment to the squeeze on funds and overstretched panchayats.

Demonetisation-induced reverse migration has worsened the situation, especially in Uttar Pradesh, which is home to a large section of India’s migrant workforce. “The number of job seekers has suddenly grown in the last few weeks,” said Nripendra Singh, sarpanch of Surpatipura village in the state’s Jalaun district. “They blame us, but we are helpless. [Prime Minister Narendra] Modi-ji should either close down the programme or release funds so that we can provide work to those seeking to do manual labour.”

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Scroll.in, 14 December, 2016, http://scroll.in/article/824077/what-demonetisation-induced-migration-has-exposed-in-uttar-pradesh-a-rural-job-scheme-in-shambles


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