Making Aadhaar-based payment system mandatory an assault on MGNREGA: CPI(M)

New Delh: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday said the Centre’s decision to make Aadhaar-based payment system (ABPS) mandatory for MGNREGA payments is an ‘assault’ on the rural employment guarantee scheme.

In a statement, the Polit Bureau of CPI(M) said the imposition of ABPS is the latest expression of the Modi government’s ‘active hostility’ towards the demand based rural work guarantee law — the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), adding that it is ‘snatching away the right to crores of workers.’