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Demanding that the Central authorities retreat the projected VB-G RAM G Act and the continuation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) successful its existing form, members of the Karnataka Pranth Raitha Sangha (KPRS), agrarian labour and workers staged a protestation extracurricular the Kalaburagi Zilla Panchayat bureau connected Monday.
Labour participating successful the protestation carried caput pans connected their heads, symbolically highlighting the deficiency of employment opportunities successful agrarian areas and the increasing hardships faced by villagers amid drought-like conditions.
The protestation was led by KPRS territory president Sharanabasappa Mamshetty who criticised what helium described arsenic anti-farmer and anti-worker policies that endanger agrarian livelihoods.
Addressing the gathering, helium said that MGNREGA has served arsenic a lifeline for mediocre agrarian families by providing employment opportunities wrong villages and preventing distress migration to cities.
The protesters submitted a memorandum addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar and Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Eshwar B. Khandre seeking contiguous involution to code the worsening agrarian concern successful the district.
Mr. Mamshetty said that the territory is experiencing important rainfall shortage during the existent monsoon season, resulting successful mediocre sowing activity, harvest accent and expanding uncertainty among farmers.
He said that inadequate rainfall, shortage of fodder and deficiency of employment opportunities person compounded difficulties successful agrarian areas and demanded that the authorities state Kalaburagi drought-affected and instantly initiate drought-relief works.
Opposing the VB-G RAM G Act, Mr. Mamshetty argued that it volition weaken the decentralised model of agrarian employment by reducing the powers of gram panchayats and limiting assemblage information successful readying and implementation.
He maintained that MGNREGA should proceed arsenic a rights-based programme implemented done gram sabhas and section self-governing institutions.
The demands included the repeal of VB-G Gram G Act, restoration of MGNREGA successful its archetypal form, an summation successful guaranteed employment to 200 man-days per household annually, enhancement of wage rates and contiguous merchandise of pending wages to workers.
They besides sought continuous employment opportunities successful agrarian areas to forestall migration of radical successful hunt of work.
KPRS leaders warned that they volition intensify their agitation if the Centre and the State authorities neglect to code the interest of farmers and agrarian workers and guarantee the continuation of MGNREGA arsenic a cardinal agrarian employment and livelihood programme.
