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Members of the Congress Party successful Shivamogga staged a protestation against the instauration of the VB-G RAM G Act successful spot of MGNREGA, connected Saturday. Under the banner of the District Congress Committee, the workers and leaders staged a dharna successful beforehand of the Deputy Commissioner’s office.
The protesters said the MGNREGA introduced by the UPA nether the enactment of Manmohan Singh brought important changes successful the lives of agrarian people. It ensured 100 days of enactment for families successful agrarian areas. Under this programme, assets were created, and plantation activities were supported. The gram panchayat and gram sabha had the authorization to hole an enactment program for the workers nether the scheme. The job-card holders could question jobs anytime successful the year.
However, the recently introduced enactment would diminish the relation of gram panchayats and gram sabhas, arsenic the enactment would beryllium prepared arsenic per the Union government’s maestro plan. This determination would beryllium a surgical onslaught connected the conception of decentralisation of powerfulness and the national structure. The caller enactment would besides state a 60-day intermission successful a year, during which play the job-cardholders would not get immoderate work, said the protesters.
The Congress leaders besides submitted a memorandum, addressed to the President and the Deputy Commissioner. They wanted the Union authorities to clasp the aged enactment and retreat the changes.
R. Prasanna Kumar, DCC president, and others led the protest.
