8 months ago
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The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) connected Tuesday staged a objection astatine Marakkanam adjacent here, demanding contiguous merchandise of pending dues to Tamil Nadu nether the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
Leading the protest, Villupuram Member of Parliament D. Ravikumar said Tamil Nadu was not allocated adjacent fractional of the tranche of funds received nether the strategy past year. As a result, implicit 5.12 lakh workers who person registered nether the scheme, had not received the guaranteed 100 days of enactment nether MGNREGS.
Mr. Ravikumar said the BJP-led authorities astatine the Centre had systematically undermined the strategy and the full fig of man-days had been drastically reduced successful the State. The Centre has reduced the man-days successful Tamil Nadu. Consequentially, respective occupation cardholders successful the State were not getting capable enactment and person mislaid their livelihood.
He demanded the Centre to guarantee that the MGNREGS continued to supply “dignified employment” and “financial security” to the agrarian poor.
