Warns against assigning their work to others, call for Secretariat gherao in Jammu on Monday
Srinagar: MGNREGA staff, on strike past seven days, on Saturday accused Rural Development Department of pressurizing them with calls of “no pay, no work” and questioned why such threats were not floated during its ‘sponsored’ lockdown when vigilance carried raids against Director RDD earlier this year.
“When vigilance organization carried out raid against Director RDD, the department sponsored strike continued for more than a week and nobody issued threatens of no work, no pay as are being resorted to now,” President of MGNREGA Association Jan Mohammad and Vice president Sandeep Kalotra said.
“When youth are coming out with their genuine demands, they are being pressurized. Why this dual policy,” they questioned.
The MGNREGA Association said that if any work in any block was assigned to someone else, “then we will block that entire Block.”
“The department will be entirely responsible for the all the steps which we will be forced to take,” they said.
Meanwhile, strike and protests by MGNREGA in favour of the ‘genuine demands’ particular their regularization of their services continued in Jammu and Kashmir on weekend.
“This is a ‘do and die’ agitation in favour of legitimate demands and we will continue it till our genuine demands are not fulfilled,” they said.
They also announced to gherao the Civil Secretariat in Jammu on December 18 to press for their genuine demands.
