Release of MGNREGA wages demanded
Source: Chronicle News Service
Bishnupur, October 13 2021:
The state government must release the wages of job card holders under MGNREGA for Toubul Gram Panchayat before Ningol Chakkouba, demanded Toubul GP Village Monitoring Committee secretary Th Bira Singh.
Addressing a press meet held at Toubul on Wednesday, Th Bira expressed strong resentment that the payment for works executed by the job card holders under MGNREGA in 2019-20 is still pending till date.
The government should release the wages of the job card holders of Toubul GP at the earliest, ahead of Ningol Chakkouba, and not belie the trust that people have on the present BJP led government, he said.
Th Bira also questioned why the state government has not released the tied and untied funds for second phase of 15th Finance Commission allocated by the centre as well as over consistent delavs in releasing funds provided by the centre for development of rural areas.
If the state government does not pay the pending wages to the job card holders before Ningol Chakkouba they will resort to launching protests against the government, he warned.