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HYDERABAD
The Telangana Legislative Assembly connected Friday adopted a solution unopposed demanding that the Centre instrumentality the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act arsenic it is by withdrawing the caller instrumentality that replaced MGNREGA — the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) - VB G RAM G.
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy moved the solution and said 90% of the beneficiaries nether the MRNREG Scheme were from SC, ST and BC communities, and 62% of them comprised women. The strategy provided wage enactment connected request arsenic a close since its motorboat astatine Bandameedipalle colony of Anantapur territory successful past combined Andhra Pradesh successful 2005. It besides provided overmuch alleviation to the wage enactment seekers successful Mahabubnagar and Medak districts. He said the caller Act tramples upon the mediocre people’s close to wage enactment and is against their rights. Further, it dilutes the tone of NREGS and is against the proviso of wage enactment connected request and weighs against women workers. Demanding restoration of the aged scheme, the Chief Minister said the caller Act was besides against the national tone successful the substance of publication of funds, arsenic it mandates 40% backing by the State arsenic against 100% wage constituent proviso by the Centre successful the aged Act.
Seeking restoration of Mahatma Gandhi’s sanction to the scheme, helium said a 60-day interruption to the strategy during highest workplace play beryllium removed arsenic it would pb to exploitation of wage seekers and each the 266 types of works beryllium continued.
Except those from the Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) who boycotted the session, members of the ruling Congress, CPI, MIM and BJP spoke connected the abbreviated treatment connected the contented earlier. Deputy Chief Minister M. Bhatti Vikramarka and Minister for Rural Development D. Seethakka decried the caller Act and said it was aimed astatine helping the firm companies get inexpensive labour.
Members of the Congress, MIM and CPI — Ch. Vijayaramana Rao, M. Samuel, V. Bhojju, Y. Srinivas Reddy, Mir Zulfeqar Ali and K. Sambasiva Rao opposed the caller Act, portion A. Mahesgwar Reddy of the BJP supported the caller Act.
