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Amid vociferous protests by the BJP and the JD(S) members, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah connected Tuesday tabled a solution successful the Assembly that expresses “serious opposition” of the House to the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act, 2025, and urges the Centre to afloat reconstruct the earlier Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREGA) Act, 2005, by rolling backmost the caller occupation scheme.
“In the involvement of protecting the close to beingness of agrarian radical of Karnataka, this House urges the Centre to instantly annul the VB-G RAM-G Act that is not lone opposed to the national operation and thought of decentralisation, but besides snatches the powerfulness and rights of colony panchayats too causing superior load connected the State exchequer,” the three-page solution tabled by the Chief Minister said.
Reiterating the Assembly’s committedness to the principles of decentralisation and panchayat raj strategy which is the beardown instauration for the country’s antiauthoritarian system, the solution said the House viewed the annulling of the MNREGA earnestly arsenic it was an elixir of beingness for agrarian mediocre too being a portion and parcel of their lives.
The solution claimed that MGNREGA introduced successful 2005 by the UPA authorities had brought astir revolutionary changes done removal of unemployment, stopping of migration, outgo of wages without sex discrimination, strengthening of panchayat decentralisation and instauration of idiosyncratic and assemblage properties successful agrarian areas.
The caller Act violates the close to beingness and livelihood granted nether Article 21 of the Constitution and besides goes against the tone of the 73rd amendment of the Constitution that grants autonomy to colony panchayats, too defeating the intent of Mahatma Gandhi’s gram swaraj, the solution said.
Pointing retired that the caller authorities would marque States to stock 40% of the outgo of wages for 150 antheral days dissimilar the earlier strategy wherever the Centre bore the afloat outgo of wages, the solution said this would impact the national operation and interruption Articles 258 and 280 of the Constitution.
Burdening the State with 40% outgo of the occupation strategy astatine a clip erstwhile the State’s stock of Central taxes person been reduced from 4.71% successful the 14th Finance Commission to 3.64% successful the 15th Finance Commission was a ploy to propulsion the State’s economical information and improvement to the information zone, the solution stated.
“The caller Act that has snatched the powers of grama sabhas arsenic the plans are being formulated from the ivory towers of Delhi,” the solution alleged.
“The MGNREGA strategy had provided for gathering locally required agrarian properties similar workplace roads, cattle sheds, thresh yards, schoolhouse compounds toilets etc. But the caller strategy indirectly benefits contractors and corporates arsenic it would beryllium utilized successful gathering large roads and highways arsenic it had been linked with PM Gati Shakti project. Hence this is simply a strategy that further strengthens the affluent by snatching nutrient from the poor,” the solution said.
The caller strategy gives employment lone for 10 months a twelvemonth and determination is nary clarity connected the inclusion of each panchayats and outgo of wages. Such uncertainty would snatch the rights of agrarian labourers peculiarly that of women, Dalit workers, tribals and farmers. It is an effort to propulsion agrarian labourers into modern slavery, the solution alleged.
