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MGNREGA employees’ stir in Tripura hits job scheme

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Agartala: Over 2,700 employees engaged in MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) scheme continued their strike for the sixth day on Saturday affecting its execution in Tripura.

The employees have been demanding annual wage hike at par with other government employees, regularisation of their jobs and removal of anomalies in their service.

The Tripura government has asked the striking staff to join their duties immediately else action will be taken against them.

“We would continue our agitation until the state government fulfils our 13-point demands,” Tripura MGNREGA Karmachari Samannay Samity secretary Joydeep Kar told.

The agitating employees are also demanding 20 days’ paid leave every year and that their their service records should be maintained like that of other employees working in centrally sponsored schemes.

Tripura Rural Development Minister Naresh Jamatia, Chief Secretary G. Kameswara Rao and other senior officials have held a series of meetings with the striking employees during the past few days and assured them of considering their demands as per the prevailing rules.

“We have asked them to join duty immediately otherwise the state government would take strong action against them,” Jamatia told reporters adding that due to the stir the execution of the rural job guarantee scheme has been affected.

Meanwhile, Tripura topped all other states in implementation of MGNREGA providing 72 days of work per household in the outgoing fiscal year (2014-15) so far against the national average of 31.75 man-days.

The MGNREGA, launched in 2005, mandates 100 days of employment in a financial year to at least one member of each rural household.

According to Tripura rural development department officials, the state has retained the top position for the fifth consecutive year by providing 87 to 88 man-days jobs per household during the past five years.

At a review meeting in New Delhi on Friday, Tripura officials told the central government officials that if the state got the remaining central funds in time, it would be able to provide at least 86 days of work per household before the end of the financial year on March 31.

According to the officials, the central government has indicated it would allocate Rs 1,500 crore under the scheme for the financial year 2015-16. The current year’s allocation was Rs 1,400 crore.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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