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Economist Prabhat Patnaik has criticised the “abandoning” of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) by the BJP-led authorities astatine the Centre.
Delivering a peculiar lecture titled “A Set of Constitutionally Guaranteed Fundamental Economic Rights” aft the merchandise of a publication successful honour of precocious economist V.K. Natraj astatine the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Research and Extension Centre, Manasagangothri present connected Friday, Prof. Patnaik said the MGNREGA strategy was a “demand-based” strategy that conferred a close upon a idiosyncratic demanding work.
Demand-based approach
Even though the scheme, which seeks to regenerate MGNREGA, talks astir 125 days of enactment against the 100 days earlier, Prof. Patnaik said immoderate programme that did distant with the “demand-based” warrant programme would contradict the “rights” to the workers.
He recalled that the MGNREGA had been introduced successful the state aft gathering a statement among each parties. The strategy was implemented connected the ground of a unanimous solution successful Parliament and each the parties had agreed to this, helium said.
When a strategy introduced done a unanimous solution successful Parliament was abruptly overturned by a bulk vote, it suggested “there is thing fundamentally problematic successful instituting a rights-based programme successful the country,” helium lamented.
Economic rights
Flagging India’s sharply rising income and wealthiness inequality, Prof. Patnaik besides advocated the instauration of wealthiness taxation and inheritance taxation to concern a acceptable of constitutionally guaranteed cardinal economical rights for citizens.
Arguing for the designation of cardinal economical rights connected a par with civilian and governmental rights, Prof. Patnaik said resources for it could beryllium mobilised by imposing these 2 taxes connected the apical 1% of the population.
