Bandlapalle, Feb. 2 -- While commemorating 20 years of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), the president of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee, YS Sharmila Reddy, launched Upaadi Haami Parirakshana Yatra, a state-wide outreach initiative that will traverse Andhra Pradesh over the coming weeks on Monday.

The initiative was launched during the Rachabanda programme, led by YS Sharmila Reddy in Bandlapalle village, the historic site where MNREGA was launched on February 2nd, 2006.

According to an official press statement, the yatra seeks to mobilise rural communities, MNREGA workers, and job card holders to defend the employment guarantee programme that has ensured livelihood security for crores of famili...