{"id":303583,"date":"2025-10-14T20:58:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303583\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:58:21","slug":"aiadwa-seek-increase-of-mgnrega-workdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303583\/","title":{"rendered":"AIADWA seek increase of MGNREGA workdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1x1_spacer.png\" alt=\"AIADWA members protest in Ramanathapuram, demanding disbursal of pending wages on Tuesday. \" title=\"AIADWA members protest in Ramanathapuram, demanding disbursal of pending wages on Tuesday. \" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1x1_spacer.png\" class=\"lead-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n                    AIADWA members protest in Ramanathapuram, demanding disbursal of pending wages on Tuesday.<br \/>\n                                          | Photo Credit: L. BALACHANDAR\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>Members of the All India Democratic Women\u2019s Association (AIDWA) here on Tuesday staged a demonstration demanding that the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 100-day employment scheme be increased to 200 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bDistrict President M. Lakshmi, addressing the protesters, highlighted that the workers hired under the scheme were not given their wages for the past several months.<\/p>\n<p>She added that steps should be taken immediately to disburse the wage arrears as the Deepavali was fast approaching.<\/p>\n<p>They alleged that the Union government was refusing to provide funds if the was was done in water bodies in Tamil Nadu. <\/p>\n<p>The demands stressed the need to increase the 100-day work to 200 days and provide a wage of \u20b9600, offer work for four hours to differently abled persons, and provide a travel allowance if the worksite is far away. <\/p>\n<p>State Deputy Secretary Karpagam, District Vice President Kannagi, and others were present in the protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time-new\"> Published &#8211; October 14, 2025 08:55 pm IST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AIADWA members protest in Ramanathapuram, demanding disbursal of pending wages on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: L. BALACHANDAR Members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":303584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,420,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-303583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115374529972089860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}