Telangana Vyayasaya Karmika Sangham president Burri Prasad accused the Centre and the State governments of trying to dilute the implementation of the Employment Guarantee Scheme at the cost of scores of agricultural coolies across the country.
Addressing the organisation’s extended meeting here on Sunday, Mr. Prasad said both the governments were wilfully ignoring the interests of workers in the unorganised sector. In the last three years, the State has not issued a single additional ration card and has instead reduced the number.
The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government had in 2005 introduced the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), also known as EGS, when the Opposition warned that with increase in farm mechanisation the coolies would lose work. However, the successive governments showed no interest in its execution, he said.
Protest call
He urged farm workers to participate on a large-scale in dharnas to be held on Monday before the fair price shops against the deliberate dilution of the Public Distribution System.
