Release wages in favour of MGNREGA workers: Harsh

Udhampur,31 March(HS): Pointing towards the pathetic plight of MGNERGA workers having been rendered unemployed due to the suspension of all works under the said scheme, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman-JKNPP & former Minister today called upon the govt. to release their wages and other dues so as to save them from starvation.

He said that lakhs of such workers in J&K were dependent upon their earnings under the said scheme which envisaged assured income to the said workers. The job guarantee scheme under MGNREGA further provided that if the govt. failed to provide employment to the said workers for the period prescribed under the Act, the registered workers shall be entitled to receive their wages and the employers shall be duty-bound to compensate them. The govt. needed to honour the MGNREGA Act as has been done by several other States like UP where the incumbent governments have released the wages of the labourers so as to save them as well as their families from starvation.