AGARTALA, Oct 30 (TIWN): Employees under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to stage protest on November 22 at Agartala, demanding to regularize their job.

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 for many days.

It has been mentioned that they have been fighting for their rights and seeking security of jobs because under the Act, the villagers and rural people are getting the benefit.

Though the scheme has many benefits but there is no job security for the employees claimed a worker under MGNREGA.

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

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.

However, on the other hand, a rally will be organized on December 3 over the demands of the All India Agricultural Workers Union. They will be demanding for minimum 250 days of work under MGNREGA at Rs. 300 per day, to double the budget of Rural Development, MGNREGA and Welfare Scheme, to implement food security act fully.