AGARTALA, Feb 3 (TIWN): From 94% MGNREGA mandays, Tripura is now suffering from acute crisis of work, affecting the economy overall the state including hitting the business. CPI-M’s farmers’ wing Khet ‘All India Kishan Sabha’ State Secretary Narayan Kar has revealed BJP-IPFT Govt led rural economy performance where from 94% MGNREGA work status Tripura has dropped at 33 days of Mandays in last 11 months, whereas not all blocks got the same mandays. Addressing media here, Kishan Sabha State Secretary Narayan Kar said, “Before the election various media and Central Ministers came here and laughed at Tripura’s MGNREGA work-performance saying being in top position in MGNREGA is not a matter of proud, rather a shame, but today the slashing of MGNREGA has worsen Tripura’s economy badly. People are starving, committing suicide and now with one more development it has been seen that with machines the State Govt has started to continue MGNREGA works which clearly indicates slash of MGNREGA employments. We strongly oppose this”. Narayan Kar also mentioned, this is just the status of MGNREGA works whereas huge numbers of pending wages have been reported.The Kishan Sabha leader further mentioned the working class and the farmers are the highest victim of Modi Govt’s wrong policy. He also criticized the State Govt for not buying products in proper time with proper prices.

Tripura had topped in 2015-2016, 2016-17 by creating on an average 94.66 mandays of work for MGNREGA. The State was  followed by Mizoram, which has created 68.55 mandays of work while Sikkim had achieved the third position by creating 66.97 mandays of work.In Tripura (2016-17) Active workers and Persons provided employment were 10.73 lakhs and 8.5 lakhs respectively, during the same time period under MGNREGA.

In July 26, 2018 the national data said, MGNREGA works are facing sharp down under the BJP govt as Tripura has dropped from No-1 to No-27.

Earlier, Tripura continuously was in top position in MGNREGA works, but this year following the election session and minimum mandays per month since four months, the MGNREGA performance report has slipped Tripura’s name from No-1 to No-27.

Telangana is in the top position in MGNREGA works in 2018.

However, the performance also covered 6 months of CPI-M Govt’s performance of 2017, whereas since last four months poor people in Tripura are suffering due to no rega works.

It has been revealed that poor people in border areas are illegally going to Bangladesh in search of work as Tripura hills, deep rural areas’ economy has been deteriorating since the pre-election season and worsen after the new Govt came.