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Union Minister for Coal and Mines and Secunderabad MP G. Kishan Reddy said connected Monday (January 12) that the Union authorities volition walk ₹17,000 crore much than past twelvemonth nether the agrarian employment warrant programme — present renamed Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Aajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act — including an further ₹340 crore for Telangana.
Addressing a property league astatine the BJP State bureau successful Hyderabad, helium accused the Oopposition of spreading ‘misinformation’ astir the revamped scheme. All amendments, helium said, were made lone aft cautious reappraisal and were based connected the demands raised by farmers, labourers and agrarian communities. It was portion of the reforms process of the Modi authorities successful assorted sectors to summation efficiencies, helium said.
Mr. Reddy said the Centre has integrated precocious exertion into the strategy to fortify accountability and transparency, including a caller proviso imposing penalties for delayed wage payments aft completion of enactment and enhancing 9% funds for supervision. States volition present person afloat authorization to determine the scheme’s implementation schedule, depending connected cultivation seasons and section requirements. A strategy of geo‑tagging volition let real‑time monitoring of works nationwide.
Dismissing concerns implicit the scheme’s sanction change, the Minister said the erstwhile Congress authorities had changed ‘Valmiki Amedkar Awas Yojana’ strategy name. The existent contented is effectual implementation and ensuring benefits scope the poor. The programme indispensable germinate from simply ‘digging pits’ into a broader effort to make villages and heighten agrarian incomes.
He alleged that successful Telangana, workers earlier faced wage delays of 2 to 3 months, forcing them to trust connected intermediaries. The caller Act, helium said, aims to forestall specified situations by ensuring nonstop payment transfers (DBT) to workers’ slope accounts.
Refuting allegations that the Centre was curtailing States’ powers, Mr. Reddy said the Union authorities does not person a ground‑level monitoring system, making State information indispensable for effectual execution.
Speaking connected irrigation issues, helium stated that seeking nationalist task presumption for works similar the Palamuru–Rangareddy task is morganatic and the BJP excessively volition enactment but decisions volition beryllium taken arsenic per norms. He noted that Andhra Pradesh’s Polavaram task received nationalist presumption nether the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Bifurcation) Act.
