Ensure proper implementation of MGNREGS, Villupuram MP tells Puducherry government
The Hindu
Beneficiaries in the Union Territory not getting 100% workdays, says Ravikumar
Villupuram Member of Parliament D. Ravikumar has urged the Puducherry government to ensure proper implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
In a statement, he said about 1.56 lakh workers had registered under the scheme in the Union Territory. Of them about 66,628 were active workers.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.