The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
The Polit Bureau of the CPIM) strongly opposes the reported attempt
by the Central government to amend the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act in so far as it provides for only a one time
adherence to minimum wages and a commitment to just provide funds to
cover wages up to this extent for all times to come, except for an
annual inflation linked revision. This absolves the Central Government
from providing the full financial outlays for meeting minimum wage
payment and will increase the financial burden on State governments for
this Central program.
The CPI(M) has for long been demanding the timely payment of minimum
wages and regular price indexation under the Scheme and the All India
Kisan Sabha had got an Order for payment of minimum wages and arrears
from the Karnataka High Court, which the Central Government shamelessly
opposed through its SLP in the Supreme Court. This unwillingness of the
UPA government to provide minimum wages to the poor demonstrates once
again the hollowness of its claim of being with the aam admi. The
CPI(M) demands that the words ‘for the first time’ be dropped from the
proposed amendment to 6(1) and the proposed amendment to 22(1)(a) be
fully dropped.
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