Women's convention on MGNREGA held
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, April 29 2023:
All Manipur Nupi Marup on Saturday organised a women's convention on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) at Manipur Press Club, here, and adopted various resolutions.
The convention was attended by Marup president M Sakhi Devi, former president S Sorojini Devi and Kha Manipur College retired principal Th Sanahanbi Devi as presidium members.
Advocate N Binodini Devi spoke on the topic of "MGNREGS & Its enforcement", MU Department of Economics professor Dr Chinglen Maisnam on "Objectives & implementation of MGNREGA", and MU Department of Earth Science guest lecturer Dr S Sobhamenon on "Social implication of MGNREGA" as resource persons.
The resolutions adopted during the convention include demands to the central government to increase MGNREGA's budgetary allocation and increasing the wages by Rs 500; issuance of job cards to prospective workers or providing employment benefits within 15 days, if not possible; increasing minimum working days to 150 days in a year; strict implementation of Minimum Wage Act in MGNREGA as well; covering urban areas under MGNREGA; strengthening of Gram Sabha to check corruption and conduct of similar conventions on other government schemes in the future.