Kolkata: A substantial wide variety of folk singers in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district protested reducing cash and irregularities inside the payment of their month-to-month stipend of Rs a thousand that was announced through the country government.
Many artists have alleged that they haven’t received their monthly stipend for the last four to six months. Several others complained of middlemen taking Rs 200 from them with the guarantee of securing their bills under the ‘Lokprasar Prakalpo’ scheme.
As in step with authorities information, nearly 8,596 artists above 60 years of age are getting a pension of Rs 1000 in keeping with month underneath ‘Lokprasar Prakalpo,’ while 76,000 artists under the age of 60 years are receiving a retainer rate of Rs a thousand.
However, floor facts suggest that the payments are abnormal. The problem related to the middlemen issue can also become a subject for folk artists, particularly within the Murshidabad district.
“We aren’t getting the monthly stipend of Rs 1000 frequently. I haven’t gotten mine for 4 to five months. The payment may be very irregular. I am not complaining about the ‘Lokprasar Prakalpo’ scheme meant for us. All I am saying is the fact. I can not rule out the opportunity to reduce cash trouble worried in it,” renowned present-day Bangla Qawwali singer Chote Golam Fakir told News18.
The ‘Lokprasar Prakalpo’ was delivered by the Department of Information and Cultural Affairs at the suggestion of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in 2015. The main goals of the assignment were restoring almost-extinct folk styles of artwork and culture and uplifting the socio-economic conditions of folk artists.
Another folk singer, Hadiya Bibi of Nabagram, alleged that a nearby middleman named Kartik Majhi had taken Rs 2 hundred as ‘cut money.’ “We are getting Rs 800, and the intermediary is taking Rs 200. We are negative people, which has become a first-rate headache.”
