On Labor Day tribal women workers of MNREGA scheme from Nirgud Pada village in Trimbakeshwar taluka, in Nashik, demand unemployment allowance after continuously demanding work under MGNREGA for almost three months.
On December 22, 2023, 101 women laborers of Nirgud Pada demanded regular work under MGNREGA Act. They were hoping to get a job in the village on January 1, 2024, but there was no sign of any job even by January 25. They filed a complaint in the gram sabha on January 26 and within a week they got work to construct a dam with stones.
However, one-third of the laborers were accommodated for this work and there was no work after this. “When we enquired with the gram sabha they told us that those who did not get work had not done KYC so they could not be given work as per government norms,” said one of the workers Gita Niragude.
