Jharkhand will contribute its own money to buttress its rural job scheme workers’ wages, chief minister Hemant Soren has announced, prompting renewed calls for the Centre to raise the wages under the programme.
Wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act are fixed separately for every state and paid by the Centre, which has been accused of keeping the wages low.
In half the states including Jharkhand, the MGNREGA wage is lower than the minimum wage fixed by the states themselves. Jharkhand is the fourth state to decide to narrow the gap by paying out of its own pocket.
This protest will only grow stronger: All India Kisan Sabha on farmers stir
Tribal activist T Senthil Kumar appealed the people at large to come together against the farm laws, which he said, should have benefitted the farmers.
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A Nihang holds the Tricolor at Ghazipur border during farmers protest against Centres agri-laws in New Delhi Sunday Dec. 20 2020. (Photo | Parveen Negi/EPS) By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The farmer protest is emerging stronger despite the hate and propaganda of the government to defame the movement, said a union leader. All India Kisan Sabha general secretary Hannan Mollah reiterated that the farmers are firm that the protest will only grow stronger until the government repeals the three central laws.
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The higher demand for MGNREGA work was because of close to 20 million workers returning to their villages from cities after the Central government announced a nation-wide lockdown on March 24. | Latest News India