Delay in payment of Wages to beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Ranchi would be looked into."We have made a request to the Labour Commissioner to look into the delay in payments and register complaints so a fine could be imposed against those responsible in delaying payment," the Ranchi Deputy Commissioner, K K Soan, told newsmen here today.A social audit had found that banks and...
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Bid to bring MGNREGA pay at par with minimum Wages by Anindo Dey
With the state government finally increasing the minimum Wages by 35% from January 1, 2011, the focus of the on-going Mazdoor Haq Yatra in the state is now on increasing the Wages under MGNREGA from the current freeze at Rs 100 to meet the minimum Wages. Not only activists of the Yatra plan to rake up this issue nationally, but with their prime demands from the state met, the entire focus...
More »India’s first UID recipient returns to Rs 50-a-day life by Santosh Andhale
On Thursday, after a fortnight of photo-ops and hobnobbing with the most powerful people in the country, the first recipient of the unique ID card, Chhabadibai Sonavane, set out to look for work. She was elated when she learnt she would be paid Rs50 for eight hours of paddy planting at a farm 5km from her home in Tembhali village in tribal-dominated Nandurbar district. Only a day ago, prime minister Manmohan Singh...
More »The mass job guarantee by Aruna Roy & Nachiket Udupa
The sea change that India’s national scheme for rural employment guarantee has accomplished is hard to fathom, its vastness touching the lives or more than 100 million people. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of 2005 (NREGA, subsequently renamed after Mahatma Gandhi, or MGNREGA) was a landmark in Indian legislation. Under the act, as of April 2008, for the first time in India’s history, all rural citizens have a legal right...
More »Rajasthan refuses to recognise NREGA workers' union by Sreelatha Menon
The registrar of trade unions in Rajasthan has refused permission to National Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) workers to form a union, on the grounds that they do not qualify as workmen. When the Majdoor Kisan Sangharsh Samiti – formed by NREGA workers under the guidance of NAC member Aruna Roy – approached the registration office, they were told that NREGA workers don't qualify as 'workmen' as defined in the Industrial Disputes...
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