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NEW DELHI: A time aft Congress announced that the nationwide 'MGNREGA Bachao Sangram' volition beryllium conducted from Jan 8 to Feb 25, agrarian improvement curate Shivraj Singh Chouhan called the absorption party's run a 'Bhrashtachaar Bachao Sangram' and accused Congress of spreading misinformation and falsehoods connected Viksit Bharat- Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act.Addressing a property league successful the capital, Chouhan alleged that corruption was rampant successful MGNREGA and claimed that 'VB-G RAM G' strategy is amended and respective steps up of MGNREGA. "MGNREGA had ceased to beryllium a awesome of honorable employment. More than 1.091 cardinal complaints were registered done societal audits conducted successful gram sabhas," helium pointed out.The curate highlighted that contractors were carrying retired enactment successful the sanction of labourers, wages were withdrawn by showing machine-based enactment and the aforesaid roads were shown arsenic 'new' year-after-year.
He besides highlighted that astir 30% of workers were supra 60; instances of 80-year-old "labourers" and fake attendance records were besides found."Over Rs 8.48 lakh crore has been spent connected agrarian improvement truthful acold nether Modi govt, compared to lone Rs 2 lakh crore during UPA regime," Chouhan said. He besides questioned if imperishable assets were created successful villages and the lives of villagers and workers genuinely improved due to the fact that of wealth spent by the earlier regime.
Chouhan said 'VB-G RAM G' is simply a "corruption-free, technology-driven and worker-centric reform". The absorption present volition beryllium connected factual improvement works specified arsenic h2o conservation, roads, schools, hospitals and earthy catastrophe management. He said this is not the clip for agitation but for practice and "Congress should halt misleading the federation and spreading falsehoods".Meanwhile, Congress connected Sunday announced the mounting up of a coordination committee to "oversee, usher and show implementation of 'MGNREGA Bachao Sangram', with elder enactment functionary Ajay Maken arsenic its convenor. The nationwide run volition request withdrawal of VB G RAM G Act, restoration of MGNREGA arsenic a rights-based law, and close to enactment and empowerment of panchayats. Senior Congress functionaries Jairam Ramesh, Sandeep Dikshit, Udit Raj and Priyank Kharge are members of the sheet constituted by enactment president Malikarjun Kharge.
