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Marking 20 years of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), AP Congress Committee president Y.S. Sharmila Reddy connected Monday held a Rachabanda programme astatine Bandlapalle village, the historical tract wherever MNREGA was launched connected February 2, 2006. She besides flagged disconnected the ‘Upaadi Haami Parirakshana Yatra,’ a State-wide outreach initiative, from Bandlapalle.
The yatra aims to mobilise agrarian communities, MNREGA workers and occupation paper holders to support the employment warrant programme, which has provided livelihood information to crores of families and continues to beryllium a cornerstone of agrarian welfare.
Addressing villagers and MNREGA workers, Ms. Sharmila said ‘Upaadi Haami,’ arsenic MNREGA is popularly known successful Andhra Pradesh, had empowered agrarian households by ensuring dignified enactment and timely wages. She cautioned that caller argumentation changes posed a menace to this hard-earned right.
Expressing interest implicit what she described arsenic attempts by the Narendra Modi authorities to dilute MNREGA done the instauration of the VB Gram G initiative, Ms. Sharmila said that portion MNREGA guarantees the close to enactment by law, the caller inaugural does not guarantee employment to the needy, thereby weakening occupation security.
“MNREGA was calved successful Bandlapalle arsenic a committedness to the agrarian poor. Diluting a guaranteed close and replacing it with uncertain schemes is an onslaught connected the livelihoods of millions. Through this yatra, we volition instrumentality the dependable of Upaadi Haami workers to each country of Andhra Pradesh,” she said.
