Status of MGNREGA in Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh

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NREGA: No payment for a year, complaints do not work
Rasatulla Khan, state president of Samajwadi party in Chattisgarh, is talking about a village in Baloda bazar block where laborers have not got their NREGA wages for more than a year now.

NREGA: Gram Panchayat does not take any application for work
Ramdas Dhurve from Narsinghpur district in Madhya Pradesh, says that in their area Sarpach and Sachiv in Gram Panchayat do not accept any application for work under NREGA.

In Rewa, villages people do not know about NREGA
Rajesh Tripathi is talking from Sirmaur block in Rewa district in Madhya Pradesh, where he says in this place, people do not know about NREGA and none of the government programs are running.

NREGA: Neither work completed nor workers paid for years
Rishi from Satna in Madhya Pradesh, says in last 5 year plan people in his area worked in NREGA, but neither the work of digging the wells on some farmer’s land was completed nor the workers were paid.

No NREGA payments after death: Still no action
Sanjay Sharma from Surguja in Chhattisgarh, says that sometime back he had raised two cases where people have died while working on MGNREGA but their families are yet to get their due wages.

Corruption in NREGA: No action after 2 months
Vipin Mishra from Yuva Sangharsh Morcha, Raigarh in Chattisgarh, says he found on the midnight of 20th January, 2011 that NREGA work was being done with the help of machines and vehicles, instead of labour.

NREGA: No payment from 6 months, complaints do not work
Shivram Sonwani from Surguja district in Chhattisgarh, is talking about a village where people have worked under MGNREGA scheme 6 months back but they are yet to be paid.

No NREGA payment from 18 months, forced to migrate for work
Shivram Sonwani from Kachnar Adivasi Vikas Samiti Sitapur in Surguja, Chhattisgarh says in Giroldi panchayat, people worked under NREGA in 2009-10, but they are yet to get their wages.

Worked 2 years ago, still no payment, how can we survive?
Shobharam from Bodla in Kabirdham (Kawardha) district, Chhattisgarh says in his village they have worked for government programs of building roads and other works, but have not been paid.

NREGA: No payment from one year, people ready to migrate
Shivram Sonwani is speaking from Mangari panchayat of Batauli block of Surguja district of Chhattisgarh, where he interviews people who have been working for road and pond construction work under NREGA for the last one year.

Worked 9 weeks in NREGA, no payment, getting ready to migrate
Shivram Sonwani from Kachnar Adivasi Vikas Samiti, today visits Bafel village in Batauli block of Surguja district of Chhattisgarh. He interviews two laborers there, who are getting ready to migrate out of village in search of work.

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