Wants one-third of beneficiaries to be women, says wages should not be less than urban state minimum pay, with provision to revise in line with cost of living
Current Affairs : Common society activists have suggested compulsory 100 days of ensured work for urban jobless under any Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme arranged by the legislature.
In a letter to association urban improvement serve Hardeep Puri, People’s Action for Employment Guarantee, (PAEG) which had worked intently in surrounding the MGNREGA under the UPA system, said that the Act or urban business ensure plan ought to guarantee that 33% of the laborers in the plan are ladies.
Business Standard had investigated July 24 that the administration is taking a gander at a urban work plot which could be on the lines of Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan for returning transients or even some type of MGNREGA yet for urban jobless.
The activists said that the wages to be paid under the Urban Employment Scheme ought not be not exactly the urban least compensation and there ought to be an arrangement to consistently amend compensation in accordance with average cost for basic items.
They said the urban neighborhood bodies ought to be the primary office to actualize such an Act and they ought to be enabled to conclude the rundown of works embraced in a ward.
The job of private contractual workers ought to likewise be abridged and rather than temporary workers, the urban neighborhood bodies should themselves be made answerable for execution of works under the proposed program.
Option to request work, right to joblessness recompense, right to worksite offices and option to convenient installment alongside pay for postponed installment as gave in MGNREGA ought to be made piece of the proposed urban plan also, the activists said.
Noted common society activists, for example, Aruna Roy, Annie Raja, Nikhil Dey, and Jayati Ghosh have given their inflection exactly.
Aditi Mehta 