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Congress Working Committee (CWC) subordinate Gidugu Rudra Raju connected Monday alleged that implicit 13 crore labourers crossed the state would beryllium deprived of enactment with the dilution and changes to clauses of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) which was renamed and enacted arsenic the Vikasit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act-2025 (VB G- Ram-G).
Mr. Rudra Raju who is presently touring North Andhra to mobilise enactment leaders to reason the caller Act told The Hindu over telephone that the Congress would powerfully reason the VB-G –Ram-G Act successful the ensuing Budget league of Parliament. He said the determination was an insult to the begetter of the federation Mahatma Gandhi and injustice to crores of labourers who depended connected the strategy for their livelihood. He added that the enactment would clasp nationwide agitations and determination conferences implicit the subject, pursuing a telephone fixed by AICC president Mallikarjuna Kharge and Leader of the Opposition-Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi.
“MGNREGA ensured Right to Work and Right to Wages for the past 2 decades. It enabled the Panchayati Raj strategy successful the country, arsenic the strategy was designed to guarantee agrarian improvement portion checking migration to cities. However, the Narendra Modi authorities introduced the caller Act which made each State lend 40% for the implementation of the scheme. Earlier, the State’s publication was lone 10%. In the changed scenario, nary State volition travel guardant to instrumentality it,” said Mr. Rudra Raju.
He further alleged with the relaxations fixed successful the caller Act, contractors would payment arsenic they would usage machinery. “Downtrodden sections including Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and tribal radical volition not get livelihood opportunities locally with the instauration of caller Act,” said Mr. Rudra Raju.
