Kolkata, April 11 -- The Calcutta high court on Thursday directed the Centre to explain why the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme shouldn't be prospectively implemented in West Bengal, excluding four districts.
While hearing pleas demanding that beneficiaries be paid for work already completed under the scheme, the court observed that the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) Act does not allow for indefinite suspension of the scheme's implementation due to complaints. It emphasised that appropriate remedial measures must be undertaken within a reasonable time frame.
A bench comprising chief justice TS Sivagnanam and iustice Chaitali Chatterjee (Das) asked the Centre to clarify why the scheme sho...