NREGA Sangharsh Morcha

Jan 10, 2025 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |NREGA Sangharsh Morcha |Amit Sengupta |Hong Jian

The coordinator of Mahila Sangathan (women’s organization) in Barmer district, Anita Soni, said recently that there is increasing demand for employment under the rural employment guarantee scheme known popularly as MG—NREGA. In this district of Rajasthan a recent group meeting in Taaratara village raised the demand for work under NREGA. Nathu Devi said that NREGA by making available employment in or near village is life-sustaining (sanjivani) for us.

Dec 6, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Moin Qazi |M Adil Khan |NREGA Sangharsh Morcha

Any development project having a wide focus must face the challenge of deciding its priorities carefully with community participation. There are many needs of people and the resources are limited. There are pressures from the more influential sections to give more attention to them.

Dec 6, 2024 | countercurrents.org | NREGA Sangharsh Morcha |Bharat Dogra |Gideon Polya |Asem Alnabih

Under the banner of the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, hundreds of NREGA workers from across India staged a two-day protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi against the “anti-worker, anti-poor” government led by PM Narendra Modi. The workers demand immediate action to address systemic issues plaguing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA), such as delayed wages, deletion of job cards, and the inadequate allocation of funds by the Central Government.

Dec 4, 2024 | countercurrents.org | NREGA Sangharsh Morcha |Bharat Dogra |Jamal Kanj |Ben McGrath

NREGA workers – under the banner of the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha – held a press conference today at the Press Club of India to expose the inadequacy of budgetary allocations for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (NREGA) by the Modi Government and the arbitrary deletion of job cards across the country.

Oct 26, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |NREGA Sangharsh Morcha |Sumanta Banerjee |Brett Wilkins

To Smt NirmalaSitharaman Union Finance Minister Dear Smt Sitharaman, More than a year ago, in my letter of 3rd July 2023, I cautioned your Ministry on last-mile glitches, largely attributable to beneficiary bank accounts linked to their Aadhar cards, that resulted in beneficiaries not receiving amounts intended to be conveyed through direct bank transfer (DBS) under more than 314 Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSSs), which have unduly proliferated during the last ten years, requesting your...