Chitrakoot (UP): In the drought-affected Basiniha village in Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot district, the situation is so bad that the villagers survive on a single roti a day. Despite this, Munni Devi was not eager to take up employment at a NREGA work site when an offer was recently made.
There is a simple reason for Munni Devi’s reluctance – she has not yet received wages for the nearly 20 days of work she completed about a year ago at another NREGA work site, leaving her disheartened and destroyed her faith in such work.
Such is the case for several other women in Basiniha too. They have toiled for days, some up to three weeks, but have still not been paid.
Heightening an already murky situation, the women were told the money would be deposited in their bank accounts in the Allahabad Gramin Bank and Tulsi Bank, but the banks told them the deposited amount had had been withdrawn. They still do not know what happened.
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