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Ahead of the motorboat of a nationwide “MGNREGA Bachao Andolan” projected by the Congress connected February 5, the party’s apical leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge are apt to sojourn Bandlapalli colony successful Narpala mandal of Anantapur district—the tract wherever the flagship employment warrant strategy was launched 20 years ago.
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was inaugurated astatine Bandlapalli connected February 2, 2006, by past Prime Minister Manmohan Singh successful the beingness of Congress person Sonia Gandhi and the past Chief Minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
The connection for the sojourn was enactment distant by A.P. Congress president Y.S. Sharmila and Congress Working Committee subordinate N. Raghuveera Reddy. The enactment enactment is said to beryllium actively considering it. The determination assumes governmental value arsenic it comes up of the nationwide run the Congress plans to motorboat from February 5 to protestation what it calls the Modi government’s effort to “convert workers’ rights into a authorities dole.”
Meanwhile, the A.P. Congress has called upon each its district, mandal, and village-level leaders to statesman a statewide run from January 5 to fortify the implementation of MGNREGA and safeguard agrarian workers’ rights.
The enactment alleged that workers crossed the State are facing superior problems, including pending wage payments, irregularities successful occupation cards, deficiency of basal amenities astatine worksites, and misuse of muster rolls, which it attributed to authorities negligence. It said the Congress has “always stood with the mediocre and moving classes” and volition intensify efforts to guarantee timely wage disbursal, greater transparency successful occupation paper issuance, just enactment allocation, and accountability successful task execution.
The A.P. Congress plans to transportation retired the run successful coordination with INDIA bloc partners, labour unions, farmers’ organisations, and its younker and women’s wings to guarantee wider participation. As portion of the initiative, enactment leaders and cadres volition organise programmes astatine district, mandal, and colony levels, behaviour door-to-door outreach, papers workers’ grievances, taxable complaints done the VB-GRAM G platform, and signifier peaceful protests demanding corrective measures.
