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NREGA Sangharsh Morcha and All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) person called for an all-India onslaught by Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) workers connected May 15, against the government’s determination to discontinue the scheme. The Act volition basal repealed connected July 1, arsenic per a notification issued by the Union Government connected Monday (May 11, 2026).
Describing MGNREGA arsenic the “only ineligible warrant of employment” for agrarian workers, AIKS said the strategy has served arsenic a important lifeline for mediocre peasants, cultivation labourers, women, and agrarian youth. It alleged that fund cuts, “exclusionary technological barriers”, delayed wage payments, and the VB-G RAM (G) Act were undermining the rights-based quality of the programme and weakening agrarian livelihoods.
The organisation endorsed a acceptable of demands raised by workers’ groups, including the rollback of the VB-G RAM(G) Act, enlargement of MGNREGA to astatine slightest 200 days of guaranteed work, and a minimum wage of ₹700 linked to inflation. It besides called for the withdrawal of “exclusionary” attendance and outgo systems, including those based connected facial recognition, and for enhancing the relation of Gram Sabhas successful readying and implementation of works.
