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Opposing the BJP-led Union government’s determination to change the erstwhile Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), members of Left parties, including the CPI, CPI(M) and SUCI(C), staged a protestation successful beforehand of the Deputy Commissioner’s bureau successful Kalaburagi connected Monday.
Addressing the protestors, CPI(M) territory caput K. Neela said that the erstwhile MGNREGA was implemented during the UPA authorities pursuing sustained unit from Left parties. It was conceived arsenic a universal, demand-driven instrumentality guaranteeing a constricted but legally enforceable close to work.
She said that the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act 2025, which has replaced MGNREGA, volition fundamentally dilute this close and contradict agrarian workers their entitlements.
Ms. Neela said that the caller instrumentality volition escaped the Centre from its work to supply funds based connected request for work. She dismissed the Central government’s assertion that it volition summation guaranteed employment from 100 to 125 days arsenic a hollow promise.
She said that the rationalisation of occupation cards volition propulsion ample sections of agrarian households retired of the scheme.
She further said that suspending employment for up to 60 days during highest cultivation play volition deprive agrarian workers of enactment erstwhile it is astir needed, forcing them to beryllium connected landlords.
Changes successful the backing signifier volition displacement the fiscal load onto State governments portion denying them immoderate relation successful decision-making, including making them carnivore the outgo of unemployment allowance and compensation for hold successful payments.
“These changes are aimed astatine shrinking the scope of the strategy and weakening the accountability of the Union government,” she claimed.
Renaming MGNREGA arsenic G RAM G amounts to an insult to Mahatma Gandhi and reflects the BJP-RSS’ hostility towards his legacy, she said.
The Left parties demanded the contiguous withdrawal of the VB-G RAM G Act and urged the Central authorities to fortify the MGNREGA ensuring capable budgetary allocation to warrant astatine slightest 200 days of employment.
CPI State Council subordinate Moula Mulla, territory caput Mahesh Rathod, enforcement assembly subordinate Bheemashankar Madiyal, SUCI(C) caput Veerabhadra and activists Meenakshi Bali, Prabhudev Yelasanghi, S.M. Sharma, Mahesh S. Sudhama Dhanni, Lavitra Vastrad and others participated successful the protest.
