No work under MGNREGA for three years - Anil from Uttar Pradesh reports.
Channel: VideoVolunteers
Date: 2015-12-02

The MGNREGA was initiated with the objective of "enhancing livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year, to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work".

Under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, each rural resident, over 18, is entitled to 100 days of employment. However, the villagers of Pure Khushal, Uttar Pradesh have been without jobs for at least three years.
 
"There is no MNREGA work in the village. How do we live, eat, educate our children, medicine? If there is some work, only then will we have some food" says Lalji, an exasperated resident of Pure Khushal. 

The villagers have been doing rounds of the block development offices and the District Magistrate requesting that they get work to sustain but apathy is the only reply they get in return. "We weren't even allowed to enter the office to make our plea" says Lalji. The only question they ask is "How do we survive with no source of income?"

Don't they deserve to earn their livelihood in a dignified manner? Support villagers of Pure Khushal by calling the concerned block development officer on + 919454465125