Vendors, who supplied building material for MGNREGA demand dues
A fresh controversy over MGNREGA has arisen after hundreds of vendors, who have supplied materials, staged a protest near Uttarkanya, the branch secretariat in Siliguri today.
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)on Monday strongly condemned the decision of the Government of India to withdraw benefits under the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act for MGNREGA workers.
In an order issued by the Labour Ministry recently, the government has directed all state
and UT governments to withdraw registration of MGNREGA workers under the building and construction workers law.
Lakhs of MGNREGA workers, majority of whom are women, registered under the construction workers law, will now be denied scholarship for their children, medical aid,
money for marriage of their son or daughter, money for repair of their houses, and monetary assistance from the statutory construction workers’ welfare board.
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MGNREGA workers with 50 days of work in a year were registered under the law.
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