NREGA Sangharsh Morcha threatens protests in Bengal if MGNREGA not resumed by December

Almost every week after the Supreme Court of India eliminated any street blocks for resumption of MGNREGA by dismissing a particular go away petition by Union of India, a number of unions of agricultural staff have threatened to protest if the 100-day scheme just isn’t resumed in West Bengal by December 2025.

“The work of NREGA has been stopped in Bengal due to the unlawful actions of the Central Government in stopping funds and the shortage of political will of the State Government to renew work. While each the Calcutta High Court and Supreme Court have handed orders for revival of the work from 1st August 2025, no such motion appears to be forthcoming from both Government. We is not going to tolerate this defiance of legislation and courtroom orders,” a press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, West Bengal mentioned on Wednesday (November 5, 2025)

Prior to the Supreme Court order, the Calcutta High Court has directed the resumption of the scheme from August 1.

“Once work is began, we now have additionally resolved to proceed to work collectively to make sure correct implementation of MGNREGA, particularly to make sure corruption free implementation, with lively and democratic participation of the agricultural staff,” the assertion by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha added.

The Trinamool Congress management together with celebration normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee has claimed credit score for the resumption of the scheme saying that the Union authorities needed to bow to the strain of individuals of West Bengal. This was even supposing the West Bengal authorities was solely a celebration to the petition which was filed by Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity.

There have been about 2.56 crore job playing cards in West Bengal when the scheme got here to a halt about three years in the past. The resumption of the 100-day scheme is a crucial political growth forward of Assembly elections scheduled subsequent yr.

According to sources within the State Panchayat and Rural Development Department, the work of constructing the required infrastructure to implement the apex courtroom’s order and resumption of the scheme has began. The district administration has already been instructed to rapidly full the work of verifying the knowledge of job card holders and updating e-KYC for resumption of the scheme.