Bihar women not getting paid under MGNREGA scheme

Women from Bihar were called to participate in a program called 'Jan Sarokar' in Delhi, as they were promised that their problems will be discussed. The women claimed that they did not receive their wages for many months under MGNREGA scheme.

New Delhi: Some civil society organisations in collaboration with some Opposition parties organised a grand scale program called 'Jan Sarokar' at the Talkatora Stadium in Delhi, where women workers from Muzaffarpur in Bihar were also called.

The women claimed that they did not receive their wages for many months under MGNREGA scheme, so a person named Sanjay informed them to come to Delhi to seek a solution for their problems.

They said that during their train journey to Delhi, they could not even get a seat to sit in the general coach, and when they reached the venue, they were heavily disappointed.

Women who had come to participate in the 'Jan Sarkar' program from Narela of outer Delhi complained that they were made to sit in the stadium from 8 am in the morning and were served spoilt food.

There was no drinking water facility either.

They were promised that the program will talk about their issues, but the issues taken on stage were completely different.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Shukla, and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh were also present in the grand event.

Apart from this, leaders of Nationalist Congress, CPM, CPI, etc were also present on the forum.

Representatives from many civil society organizations and social workers from all over the country also attended the program.

Many women did not know why exactly they were called, and said that they and felt cheated.