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CPI(M) Kollam territory committee volition organise protestation and defence assemblies crossed the territory connected January 5 to support the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The committee condemned the Central government’s caller actions arsenic “anti-people,” alleging that the State-sponsored dismantling of the strategy threatens the precise endurance of the poor.
“The scheme, which was primitively afloat funded by the Central government, has undergone a important displacement to a 60:40 cost-sharing ratio betwixt the Centre and the State. Under the caller regulations, the Centre volition besides acceptable expenditure limits; immoderate spending by the State exceeding these caps indispensable beryllium covered wholly by the State’s ain treasury. The upcoming protestation specifically demands the contiguous clearance of ₹527.69 crore successful MGNREGS arrears presently owed to Kerala by the Central government,” said the State leadership.
They added that Left-wing representatives successful Local Self-Government institutions volition present resolutions successful their upcoming meetings against the Centre’s moves to undermine MGNREGS.
