AGARTALA, January 14 (TIWN): The centrally sponsored MGNREGA scheme is in risk here in rural Tripura with the panchayats across the state delaying the payment of wages to the REGA workers. Yet on another protest against the nonpayment of the wages under MGNREGA ahead of Poush Sankranti the agitated laborers of Shonicherra Panchayat under Kalacherra Block today staged a road blockade.

It sounds weird but appears to be true that though the wages of workers employed under the NREGA have been revised on papers but the reality is far from it. Irregularities in REGA wages under almost every Panchayats of the state are often coming out highlighted where the workers are being deprived at large and often they show a protest infront of the panchayats and has been staging a road blockade often.

It is often being reported that the REGA workers after conducting their scheduled works are getting deprived from their payment of wages. And the panchayats are often coming under the limelight and are alleged of not providing the wages in time. Leaving no stone unturned the panchayats have been playing a role of a silent spectator in this regard depriving the workers at large.

Earlier several such incidents were also reported where the deprived and the agitate workers under locked the panchayat officials at the panchayat office protesting against the nonpayment of the wages.

However but, it is mentionable here that when the REGA workers here in Tripura are already deprived from their deserved wages, on the other the Tripura CM Manik Sarkar has been demanding for the withdrawal of the curtailment of MGNREGA fund here in Tripura for the benefit of the poor people of the state. Therefore it would be wise enough to comment here that depriving the REGA workers at large the panchayats are probably making a hefty profit in their business of looting the public money.