Assault on Rural Work Guarantee Law
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
The latest expression of the Modi government’s active hostility towards the demand based rural work guarantee law—the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) is the imposition of an AADHAR based payment system (ABPS) the deadline of which expired on December 31, snatching away the right to crores of workers. Under the law, every rural worker has the right to a job card and every job card holder has the right to at least 100 days work.