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JMM accuses of deliberately deleting name of SC/STs from MNREGA list

Ranchi, Dec 8 (UNI) Leader of the Opposition in the Jharkhand Assembly Hemant Soren today alleged that as a planned conspiracy the name of the members belonging to the SC/ST community was removed from the MNREGA job card and claimed that in the last few years names of seven lakh such card holders was deleted from the list.
Addressing the press after the end of the meeting of the extended working committee of the party, he said the total number of approved job cards is 45 lakh and the current active number of job cards is 23.5 lakh. Mr Soren said, in the overall scenario that SC/ST members having MNREGA job cards constitute 44 per cent of the total cards and added that in districts such as Giridih, Dumka, Latehar, Garhwa where large number of these people lives their names have been deleted from the list.
Mr Soren said his party would soon launch an agitation against the state government demanding jobs and said if the government is not capable of providing jobs then it should provide unemployment allowance within 15 days.
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