The Telegraph Labourers from Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district on Saturday staged a demonstration at a block after being denied work under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA) for the last few months. The mandate of the MGNREGA is to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household. “Villagers from across all the 11 panchayats in the Sonua block have been complaining for the...
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Fact check: Is the demand for MGNREGA jobs declining, as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman claims? -Nidhi Jacob
-Factchecker.in/ Scroll.in MGNREGA is a social security and employment scheme which aims to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed employment in a year to every rural household. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while addressing the Lower House of the Parliament on December 14, claimed that the demand for work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is declining. “There is now very obviously a declining demand for jobs in the...
More »Bengal: Rs 2,744 of NREGA Wages Pending, Workers’ Group Says ‘Rights Violated’
-Newsclick.in MGNREGA workers in West Bengal have not been paid wages since December 26, 2021, which is a violation of their fundamental rights, the Morcha said. New Delhi: The NREGA Sangarsh Morcha on Monday marked one year of the Centre withholding the release of over Rs 7,500 crore of MGNREGA funds to West Bengal as protest demonstrations took place across the state. MGNREGA workers in the state have not been paid wages since...
More »Big industries don’t observe uniform labour standards in India: Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh at ILO meet -AM Jigeesh
-The Hindu BMS chief Hiranmay Pandya said workers face low wages, lack of job security and social security benefits, and had to suffer poor working conditions this year On the second day of the Asia Pacific Regional Meeting of the International Labour Organisation (APRM of ILO), representatives of workers and employers from India on Wednesday highlighted the employment situation in the country. While employers hailed the Union government’s steps to “help” workers...
More »Results of a survey in 4 states reveals how MGNREGA protected the poor from income shocks during the pandemic
-Press release by Azim Premji University dated October 13, 2022 New Delhi & Bangalore, October 13: About 39 percent of all jobcard-holding households interested in working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 did not get a single day of work in the Covid year of 2020-21. Also, on average, only 36 per cent of households that worked received their wages in 15 days, showed a survey of...
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