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NEW DELHI: Congress person Priyanka Gandhi Vadra connected Tuesday accused the Centre of attempting to dismantle the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act nether the pretext of renaming and restructuring it, informing that the projected changes could yet pb to the strategy being scrapped.Speaking during a protestation against the projected renaming of MGNREGA to G RAM G, Priyanka Gandhi said the authorities was “obsessed” with changing names and argued that specified exercises pb to unnecessary expenditure. She said the agrarian employment strategy carries the sanction of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, and altering it amounts to disrespect.
“This strategy is named aft Mahatma Gandhi. He is the Father of the Nation and his sanction should not beryllium insulted,” she said.
Priyanka Gandhi besides pointed retired that MGNREGA was enacted with unanimous governmental consensus. “When this instrumentality was passed, determination was not a azygous nationalist enactment that opposed it. It was made with everyone's consent,” she said, adding that the instrumentality was meant to warrant 100 days of employment to the poorest sections of society.Questioning the government’s assertion that it was expanding employment from 100 to 125 days, she said the connection was misleading.
“On the surface, it appears they are expanding workdays, but if you work it carefully, the strategy itself could travel to an end,” she said, alleging that determination were aggregate provisions that could weaken oregon dismantle the programme.She criticised the projected alteration successful the backing pattern, noting that earlier the Centre bore 90 percent of the fiscal responsibility. “Now the Centre wants the enactment to proceed but is shifting the load onto states. Poor states volition not beryllium capable to spend this, and yet the strategy volition collapse,” Gandhi said.“The information is that successful the garb of changing the sanction of the scheme, they privation to scrap this scheme. Why bash they privation to alteration the sanction of this scheme? Mahatma Gandhi is the begetter of the nation,” she added.
- Renaming utilized arsenic a screen to weaken oregon scrap MGNREGA
“On the surface, it appears that lone the sanction is being changed and the fig of workdays is being accrued from 100 to 125. But if 1 reads this carefully, determination are 23 provisions done which this strategy tin beryllium weakened oregon adjacent finished.”“The information is that successful the garb of changing the sanction of the scheme, they privation to scrap this scheme.”
- Financial work shifted from Centre to states
“Earlier, 90 percent of the work laic with the Centre to supply the funds.”“Once the Centre’s stock is reduced, the load volition autumn connected the states. Poor states volition not beryllium capable to spend this, and yet the strategy volition collapse.”
- Centralisation of decision-making, weakening Panchayati Raj
“That determination is taken astatine the panchayat level by the gram pradhan.”“Now what volition happen? These decisions volition beryllium made astatine the Centre. People sitting successful Delhi volition decide.”
“The powers fixed to panchayats nether the 73rd Constitutional Amendment, nether the Panchayati Raj system, volition beryllium taken away.”
Several absorption MPs staged a objection extracurricular Parliament’s Makar Dwar and aboriginal gathered adjacent the Mahatma Gandhi statue wrong the Parliament compound. Holding photographs of Mahatma Gandhi and accused the Centre of attempting to dismantle the agrarian employment strategy nether the guise of renaming it. Samajwadi Party main Akhilesh Yadav and different elder absorption leaders were contiguous during the protest.
Earlier successful the day, Union agriculture curate Shivraj Singh Chouhan sought support successful the Lok Sabha to present the Viksit Bharat Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill, 2025, besides known arsenic the G RAM G Bill, which seeks to regenerate MGNREGA.
The projected Bill guarantees 125 days of wage employment per agrarian household, up from the existing 100 days, for big members consenting to undertake unskilled manual work. The authorities has said the caller model aims to supply income information portion creating durable and productivity-enhancing agrarian assets done a nationally coordinated improvement strategy.
