Minister for Finance and Health T. Harish Rao on Saturday addressed a postcard to the Centre with a request to hyperlink the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MG-NREGS) to agricultural operations to carry down the prices of farming and to supply some aid to the farming neighborhood.
He penned the postcard as a part of campaign initiated by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA from Narsampet Peddi Sudershan Reddy. The Minister requested the Centre to extend wage-days within the scheme and cease measures to weaken the target of the scheme by imposing cuts within the budgetary allocation for the scheme for the final two years. He acknowledged that the Centre had reduce the allocation to the wage employment scheme by a whopping ₹55,000 crore in two years.
Speaking on the event, he stated in opposition to the supply within the act to make sure a minimum of ₹257 wages to each wage-seeker for a day’s work these engaged within the wage works executed underneath the scheme weren’t even getting ₹100 a day in a lot of the instances. Besides, the Centre was additionally not offering fundamental amenities and comparable to tent for shade and consuming water and instruments as as shovel, spade, baskets to shift the gravel/soil and others.
The Minister acknowledged that the Minimum Wages Act mandates wages of a minimum of ₹480 for 8 hours of labor by an individual however the wage seekers have been getting solely paltry wages. The wage seekers have been additionally going through a number of technical issues comparable to connectivity to register their presence within the work spot at 10 am and 4 pm.
Stating that Telangana small and marginal farmers comprise a lion’s share within the landholding farmers and that they’d additionally search wage work through the off-farm seasons, Mr. Harish Rao stated linking NREGS with agricultural operations would additionally present large aid within the matter of farming prices for such farmers. He urged that 100 wage days be allotted to each acre of land per 12 months to make the scheme productive too.
He additionally sought job safety to the Assistant Programme Officers and Field Assistants engaged within the scheme. The postcard campaign was launched on April 8 at Duggondi in Narsampet Constituency.
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