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Activists of the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS) staged a protestation extracurricular the Kalaburagi Zilla Panchayat bureau connected Saturday, demanding the withdrawal of the projected Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission-Gramin (VB-GRAM G) and the continuation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) successful its existing form.
Carrying reddish flags and raising slogans, the protesters alleged that the projected strategy would undermine the livelihood information of agrarian labourers and weaken the employment warrant model that has supported millions of workers crossed the country.
Led by KPRS territory president Sharanabasappa Mamshetty, the protesters submitted a memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister, the Chief Minister of Karnataka and the State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister done the Chief Executive Officer of the Kalaburagi Zilla Panchayat.
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Mamshetty said that the MGNREGA was conceived arsenic a rights-based programme to forestall distress migration by providing employment opportunities to agrarian workers wrong oregon adjacent their villages. He said the strategy had played a important relation successful Kalyana Karnataka by reducing seasonal migration of labourers to Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and respective parts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana during periods of cultivation inactivity.
“The MGNREGA has served arsenic an economical lifeline for agrarian households. Any effort to regenerate it with a strategy that dilutes the ineligible warrant of employment would adversely impact the poorest sections of nine and weaken agrarian livelihoods,” helium said.
The KPRS expressed interest implicit reports that the caller strategy could beryllium introduced from July and urged the Union authorities to clasp and fortify the MGNREGA alternatively of replacing it.
The organisation demanded that the yearly employment warrant nether the strategy beryllium enhanced from 100 days to 200 days per household and that wages beryllium revised successful enactment with the rising outgo of living. It besides called for the contiguous clearance of pending wage payments owed to workers.
Warning of intensified agitation if their demands were ignored, Mr. Mamshetty said the organisation would proceed antiauthoritarian protests crossed the portion until the projected changes were withdrawn and the employment warrant model was protected.
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