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New Delhi:The Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), a crucial monitoring provision mandated under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) of 2005, has not held any review meetings for nearly the past four years due to delays in appointments of non-officio or civil society members, ThePrint has learnt...
According to two senior ministry officials, the ministry is now in the process of appointing civil society members to the council...
Chaired by the rural development minister, the council is meant to have 15 officials from central and state governments and 12 non-officio members representing Panchayati Raj institutions, workers organisations, and disadvantaged groups...
Emphasising the need for the council, Chakradhar Buddha, senior researcher at LibTech India, a non-profit organisation of experts working on MGNREGA-related matters, told ThePrint, The failure to constitute the Central Employment Guarantee Council not only violates the MGNREGA but also silences a critical platform for workers to voice their concerns..
However, the council, he said, gave MGNREGA workers representatives, civil society members and others a platform to raise issues affecting the implementation of the rural employment guarantee scheme...
