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Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) main Y.S. Sharmila connected Thursday (February 05, 2026) claimed that respective villages had witnessed improvement owed to MGNREGA, and discontinuing the strategy successful its erstwhile signifier would erstwhile again pb to dense migration from the backward Rayalaseema portion successful hunt of work.
Ms. Sharmila’s 4th yatra demanding the continuation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) reached Punganur successful Annamayya territory connected Thursday.
Speaking connected the occasion, she said that MGNREGA is 1 of the champion schemes for providing employment opportunities to the poor. It was launched from Rayalaseema portion and had changed the lives of lakhs of poor, she said, adding that discontinuation volition interaction respective families.
She alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi altered the aged strategy and changed its name, which would payment contractors only, arsenic the works would beryllium decided by the Centre alternatively than astatine the colony level.
Ms. Sharmila ridiculed the Centre’s claims that it would supply 125 enactment days arsenic against 100 nether MGNREGA. Since 2014, connected an average, not adjacent 52 enactment days were provided, she alleged, asking however the Centre would supply 125 enactment days now.
