It is considered that one of the big achievement of UPA government is the Rural Employment Scheme NAREGA. Later its name changed to on the our father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi. Now its name is The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ( MGNREGA ) that aims to guarantee the 'right to work'. It had given a new hope of employment in rural India. The BJP leader L.K. Adwani also praised this scheme. But today I shocked after reading an article. This article says NAREGA acts as a family suicide plan. According to this report “HT think”, delayed payment in MANREGA Scheme, worker tends to kill himself. Seven families across Maharashtra and Jharkhand have lost members who have killed themselves owing to delayed payments under the MANREGA Scheme. One such story of suicide, I am going to put in this column .This story belongs to Palamu, Jharkhand. I also belong from this naxal effected areas, that’s why I am taking this story. This story is of a labour cl...
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