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Over 3,700 cadre of assorted governmental parties affiliated to Secular Progressive Alliance staged a protestation against what they called the BJP-led Union Government’s effort to dilute Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, astatine 11 places crossed Virudhunagar district.
MLAs, A.R.R. Srinivasan, S. Thangapandian, S. Ashokan and A.R.R. Raghuraman, were among those who took portion successful the protestation held astatine antithetic places.
“Removing the sanction of Mahatma Gandhi from the sanction of of the strategy shows the hatred of BJP against the Father of the Nation,” said Virudhunagar territory caput of All India Agricultural Workers’ Union, M. Sundara Pandian.
Work for agrarian radical of Tamil Nadu has already been reduced to 40 to 50 days with the reduced allocation of funds by the Union Government.
“Since, nether the amended instrumentality the allocation of funds for the strategy by the Centre has been reduced to 60% and State Governments person been mandated to lend the remaining 40%. Though the fig of moving days has been accrued from 100 days a twelvemonth to 125 days a year, the fig of days of jobs is each acceptable to beryllium drastically reduced successful the coming years,” helium said.
This is besides due to the fact that the captious facet of the MNREGA strategy which guaranteed occupation to the agrarian radical upon request has been changed to need-based.
Besides, the jobs that were disposable to the aged people, aged widows and differently-abled which provided them livelihood would go a happening of the past, helium alleged.
Cadre of Congress, CPI (M), CPI, VCK were among those who took portion successful the protest.
