Lift restrictions on MGNREGS works in Rajasthan’s rural areas: Civil society groups

Civil society groups in Rajasthan on Friday known as for lifting of restrictions on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) works in the rural areas, whereas affirming that the State authorities’s orders had weakened the flagship employment enterprise through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Against 50 lakh labourers engaged for MGNREGS works throughout June final yr, solely 18.8 lakh have gotten the work this yr, regardless of the rural inhabitants’s full dependence on the scheme for his or her livelihood. Works haven’t been sanctioned on a big scale in the village panchayats and people demanding employment as a statutory proper should not getting it.

Activists stated an order of the State authorities to limit the variety of labourers at a website to 30 to keep away from crowding was being misinterpreted for sanctioning solely a single work in every village panchayat. This has resulted in a only a few individuals getting employment in the villages, resulting in starvation and hunger.

In a memorandum despatched to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, the Suchna Evum Rozgar Adhikar Abhiyan has demanded that the orders on restrictions be withdrawn and a provision be made for giving work for a further 50 days to the villagers affected by the pandemic.

A ‘Kaam Maango’ (search the work) marketing campaign must also be launched in all blocks of the State and the measurement of process for giving wages diminished by half for the labourers who have been recovering from the COVID-19 an infection, Mukesh Nirvasit of the Abhiyan stated. Representatives of about 100 organisations signed the memorandum, which was submitted to the Collectors at district headquarters and Block Development Officers in greater than 50 blocks on Friday.