MGNREGA a constructive legacy left by UPA, says Cong

The Congress today described MGNREGA as a constructive legacy left by the UPA to the Narendra Modi government, and it should be carried forward with a strict monitoring mechanism.
"MGNREGA was a revolutionary initiative of the UPA regime. It helped control migration," Congress leader and former union minister Subodh Kant Sahay said at a programme to mark the completion of 10 years of the Act.
Congress Jharkhand unit president and MLA Sukhdeo Bhagat said, "The Act has a humane touch that creates human relations and fulfils Mahatma Gandhi's dream of feeding the person in the last row of the society."

Addressing the function, another senior Congress leader K N Tripathi recollected how the BJP described MGNREGA as "a living monument of Congress' failure".
"Now the BJP-led central government says it is a big scheme. Such legacies are left only by visionary leadership," Tripathi said.
State advisor to the Commissioners of the Supreme Court on Right to Food, Balram suggested three ways to make the Act effective: Make people aware of the Act, raise the issue in legislatures and take it to the courts following any violation of the Act.
Stating that MGNREGA has an economic-political- philosophical dimension, Balram said, "There should be social audit. Job should be provided on demand and labourer should be paid before his sweat dries up."

"Assets constructed under MGNREGA should be durable and useful," he said.