Bengal

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the Centre to immediately resume the 100-day work in Bengal under MGNREGA.

A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen, while hearing the matter, observed that MGNREGA work should start in Bengal without delay.

“As accepted by all the parties that there exists no impediment for implementing MGNREGA with prospective effect, we deem it proper to implement the MGNREGA scheme forthwith,” the bench said.

During the hearing, senior state counsel Kalyan Bandhopadhyay submitted that arrears due to workers must also be released. “Disbursement of wages of the labour and starting of MGNREGA — the Central Government is to pay the wages, but the State Government has already disbursed some. There is aro

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