Imphal, July 18 NNN: An emergency meeting of the JAC on implementation of MGNREGS, Sadar Hills was held at Kuki Inpi here on Wednesday and condemned the state government’s policy to pay 50 per cent of wages of the job card holders through Zilla Parishads/District Council and Line Departments.
Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the meeting, Paolen Kipgen, general secretary, JAC on implementation of MGNREGS, Sadar Hills, said the JAC condemned the government’s official instruction to pay half of the scheme’s wages to job card holders in Sadar Hills through Zilla Parishads/District Councils and Line Departments.
He said if the policy is put into effect in the hill villages it will violate their administrative practice and cultures, appealing that the government should withdraw the decision in the interest of the hill people and that 100 per cent of the MGNREGS fund meant for hill areas should be made available through the concerned village heads only.
The JAC is all prepared to launch agitations in case the state government tries to implement the policy in the hills, Kipgen threatened.
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