New Delhi: Since the implementation of the demonetisation scheme by Prime Minister Narendra Modi all is not well with the MGNREGA scheme.
The rural job guarantee scheme has lost its sheen as the number of households getting work in November dropped by 23 percent compared to the previous month and those being turned back empty-handed jumped to 23.4 lakh, almost twice the number in October, The Times of India reported on Tuesday.
Expressing his helplessness, Suniya Laguri, a 20-year old woman in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, explains how he is being forced to work at just Rs 50 per day due to non-availability of work in MGNREGA and massive unemployment in rural areas after the implementation of the note ban move.
Suniya's frustration is just tip of the iceberg. Thousands of agricultural labourers and small or marginal farmers in the country are reeling under the same crisis. Rural wages have crashed due to non-availability of cash and the lethargy of the labourers.
Mangoo Ram, another labourer from UP's Hardoi district, narrates his family's plight. Mangoo says how they have managed to get basic food items on credit to meet their necessity during the initial days of the implementation of demonetisation scheme and now stare at the open sky with no hope of getting any help from anybody in the fifth week of demonetisation.
With most of their income saved in the banks or post offices, life of the rural poor has come to a grinding halt.
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