AMTDGF urges for release of MGNREGA fund
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, February 22 2023:
All Manipur Tribal Development Grievances Forum (AMTDGF) has urged the BJP-led government to release the MGNREGA fund to all registered job card holders of Manipur within February, in the larger interest of the downtrodden citizens of the state.
In a release, AMTDGF secretary Gangonglung Khumba cautioned that it would resort to various forms of agitations including economic blockade if the state government does not release MGNREGA fund within short notice.
Though it has repeatedly approached the government for clearing the outstanding wages under MGNREGA since October 2022, the stubbornness in addressing the grievances of the registered job card holders is very unfortunate, it said.
The Forum claimed that the so called double-engine BJP government has not fulfilled the promise made to the public of Manipur on various issues including payment of due wages under MGNREGA to all 16 districts of the state since 2022.The government must release the fund at the earliest or else the Forum will be compelled to launch democratic agitations against the government, it further reiterated.