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Employment Guarantee Bill: Govt agrees to Left demands
Our Bureau
New Delhi
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Aug. 17
THE Government today yielded to the demands of the Left parties and agreed to incorporate five major amendments in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill, slated to be tabled in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
The decision follows a meeting between the Left leaders and a Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by the Defence Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee.
It has been agreed that minimum wage under the scheme would be fixed at Rs 60 per head per day, extension of the scheme throughout the country within five years from the launch of the scheme and ensuring that one-third of the beneficiaries should be women.
It has also been agreed that the implementing agencies, the respective State Governments in this case, would be taken into confidence and the Centre should ensure unhindered flow of funds and in case the funds were delayed, the Centre would compensate the States.
The meeting was also attended by the Rural Development Minister, Mr Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, and the Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad. The Left leaders present in the meeting included Mr Nilotpal Basu and Ms Brinda Karat of the CPI (M); Mr Gurudas Das Gupta and Ajay Chakravarti of the CPI; Mr Debabrata Biswas of the Forward Block and Mr Manoj Mukherjee of the RSP.
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