<h1>Opposition urges major funding increase, statutory minimum wage, timely-pay enforcement and halt to mandatory biometric monitoring for employment scheme</h1> An opposition party alleges that a central employment guarantee scheme has been chronically underfunded for 11 years, claiming the executive's budget management and regulatory spending caps have left the programme unable to meet demand and forced carryover of prior-year liabilities. The party contends statutory wage-payment timelines are routinely missed, triggering arrears and payment delays, and challenges mandatory use of biometric and mobile monitoring technologies as exclusionary. It demands significant budget increases, a statutory minimum daily wage, stricter enforcement of timely-payment rules, formation of a legislative standing committee to set wages, and suspension of compulsory adoption of the contested technologies.