18.3% MGNREGS workers out of Aadhaar-based wage system
1 year, 4 months ago

18.3% MGNREGS workers out of Aadhaar-based wage system

The Hindu  

The fourth extension for mandatory payments under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme via Aadhaar Based Payments System ends on August 31. As per the paper, which is an analysis of payments to normal accounts versus Aadhaar-linked accounts, 36% of transactions were processed in seven days for normal account payments and 39% for ABPS. “Analysis reveals that there is no statistically significant difference in the time taken to process payments between the two payment types,” Rajendran Narayanan, one of the authors of the paper said. On the contrary, Mr. Narayanan said that there is significant anecdotal evidence that ABPS payments lead to a host of challenges for the workers.

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Govt panel recommends overhaul of MGNREGS, adjusting wages every 5 years
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Govt panel recommends overhaul of MGNREGS, adjusting wages every 5 years

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: A government panel has recommended a complete overhaul of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme including allocating more work in areas with a higher number of deprived households. The panel, formed by the ministry of rural development in October 2022 to study the performance of the states and governance under MGNREGS, also argued for a separate …

MGNREGS wage rates revised, hikes range between 4-10 per cent for different states
9 months, 2 weeks ago

MGNREGS wage rates revised, hikes range between 4-10 per cent for different states

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme have been revised, with hikes ranging between four and 10 per cent for different states. Haryana has the highest wage rate for unskilled workers under the scheme at Rs 374 a day, while Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland have the lowest at Rs 234, according to a notification. The …

Aadhaar-based pay a bad idea for MGNREGS
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Aadhaar-based pay a bad idea for MGNREGS

The Hindu  

On January 1, the Rural Development Ministry made Aadhaar-Based Payment Systems mandatory in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Third, the Aadhaar number of each worker must be mapped correctly through their bank branch with a software mapper of the National Payments Corporation of India, which acts as a clearing house of ABPS. Evaluating claims The government has …

Bihar aims for 100% Aadhar seeding of NREGS job card holders by Jan 15
1 year ago

Bihar aims for 100% Aadhar seeding of NREGS job card holders by Jan 15

Hindustan Times  

Bihar hopes to complete the process of linking Aadhar cards of all job card holders under MGNREGS by mid-January as part of the Centre’s directive to states to implement Aadhar-based payment of wages to beneficiaries under the scheme, officials familiar with the matter said. “We currently have around 84% of job card holders whose bank accounts have been linked with …

Case-by-case exemption from new MGNREGS payment system: Centre
1 year ago

Case-by-case exemption from new MGNREGS payment system: Centre

The Hindu  

Workers will get exemption on a case-to-case basis from the Aadhaar-based payment system of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the Union Rural Development Ministry said in a statement on Monday in response to a report in The Hindu that 34.8% of the registered workers and 12.7% of active workers remain ineligible for this mandatory payment method. Updation/deletion …

Aadhaar-linked pay becomes mandatory for MGNREGS workers
1 year ago

Aadhaar-linked pay becomes mandatory for MGNREGS workers

The Hindu  

From the New Year, all wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme must be paid through an Aadhaar-based payment system, which requires workers’ Aadhaar details to be seeded to their job cards. Crores of workers still ineligible Government sources, however, claim that the decision not to extend the deadline again is guided by active workers, rather …

MGNREGS deadline for mandatory Aadhaar-based wage payments extended till December 31
1 year, 4 months ago

MGNREGS deadline for mandatory Aadhaar-based wage payments extended till December 31

The Hindu  

With 41% of job card holders under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme still unprepared for Aadhaar-based wage payments, the Union government has extended its deadline to mandate such payments till the end of the year. For ABPS, a worker’s Aadhaar details must be seeded to her job card and to her bank account; the worker’s Aadhaar …

Centre not to extend deadline for mandatory use of Aadhaar-based payment for MGNREGS
1 year, 4 months ago

Centre not to extend deadline for mandatory use of Aadhaar-based payment for MGNREGS

India TV News  

The Central government will not extend the deadline for implementing Aadhaar-based payment system as the only mode of payment to workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. A total of 12.17 crore Aadhaar numbers have been authenticated and 77.81 per cent were found eligible for ABPS at that time, as per the ministry. 1.13 crore MGNREGS workers …

New deadline for Aadhaar-based rural jobs scheme wages
1 year, 6 months ago

New deadline for Aadhaar-based rural jobs scheme wages

The Hindu  

The Union Rural Development Ministry has extended the deadline for mandatory payments of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme via Aadhaar Based Payments System to August 31. The NREGA payment system allowed for two modes of wage payments “account based” and “aadhaar based”. For this to work, the worker’s job card and bank account must be seeded with …

Centre urges States to adopt Aadhaar-based payment system for MGNREGS workers to avoid wage delays
1 year, 7 months ago

Centre urges States to adopt Aadhaar-based payment system for MGNREGS workers to avoid wage delays

The Hindu  

With reports on wage payments to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme workers failing due to frequent changes in the bank account numbers of the beneficiaries, the Union government has urged State governments to ensure that the Aadhaar-based payment system is enabled. “Once Aadhaar is updated in the scheme database, beneficiaries need not update account numbers due to …

'Let Governments And Politics Be Out Of It':SC Seeks Centre's Response On Plea For Pending Wages of MNREGA Workers
1 year, 8 months ago

'Let Governments And Politics Be Out Of It':SC Seeks Centre's Response On Plea For Pending Wages of MNREGA Workers

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday required the UOI to file its response on the 2021 plea contending that the pending wages of workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 are piling up along with negative balances in funds of most of the states The Court required a copy of the application to be made available with …

Deadline for using Aadhaar-based payment system for MGNREGS workers extended
1 year, 8 months ago

Deadline for using Aadhaar-based payment system for MGNREGS workers extended

The Hindu  

Following sustained protests from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme workers, the Union government has decided to extend the deadline for workers to use the Aadhaar-based payment system for receiving wages by three months till June 30. On March 31, as per the sources, the Union Rural Development Ministry’s own data pointed out that the beneficiary accounts eligible …

Data | MGNREGS woes: Payment delays, Aadhaar seeding troubles and budget cuts
1 year, 10 months ago

Data | MGNREGS woes: Payment delays, Aadhaar seeding troubles and budget cuts

The Hindu  

From being called a “living monument of failure” to “digging holes,” the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has long been subject to harsh criticism by the ruling dispensation. Also, rectifying errors in the Aadhaar-based payments is nearly impossible for the workers and field officials.” MGNREGS also suffers from inordinate delays in payment of wages. Further, several States such …

States must pay part of MGNREGS wages, says Union Minister Giriraj Singh
1 year, 10 months ago

States must pay part of MGNREGS wages, says Union Minister Giriraj Singh

The Hindu  

The financial burden of wages to the beneficiaries of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme should also be shouldered by State governments, in order to make them more proactive in controlling corruption, Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh said on Thursday, in response to a query from The Hindu Meanwhile, academics and activists working under the umbrella body of …

Cut in MGNREGS outlay creates resentment in Rajasthan; rights groups stage protests
1 year, 11 months ago

Cut in MGNREGS outlay creates resentment in Rajasthan; rights groups stage protests

The Hindu  

The sharp reduction in the Union Budget outlay for the Centre’s flagship job guarantee programme has created resentment among the rights groups, activists and labourers in Rajasthan. Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Minister Ramesh Meena too expressed disappointment over the Budget cut and said the State government had provided 25 additional days of employment on its own. The MGNREGS Sangharsh …

More funds for MGNREGS if needed, says Rural Development Ministry
1 year, 11 months ago

More funds for MGNREGS if needed, says Rural Development Ministry

The Hindu  

The cut in budgetary outlay for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme will not affect the programme’s objective of providing wage employment on demand and additional funds will be made available as and when the need arises, the Ministry of Rural Development said, in a clarification to news reports on the adverse impact of the budget cuts on the …

Explained | The Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan
2 years, 4 months ago

Explained | The Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme has rolled out in Rajasthan with the objective of providing economic support to the poor and needy families living in the cities through work to be provided on demand for 100 days in a year. The Congress government has touted it as the country's biggest scheme to give guaranteed …

6 lakh jobs, unemployment allowance: AAP's guarantees to Himachal ahead of election
2 years, 4 months ago

6 lakh jobs, unemployment allowance: AAP's guarantees to Himachal ahead of election

India Today  

The Aam Aadmi Party on Friday announced six more guarantees for the people of Himachal Pradesh in Mandi on Friday ahead of the Assembly elections. 6 new guarantees by AAP in Himachal Pradesh : -Employment Guarantee AAP has promised employment to every unemployed person along with an unemployment allowance of Rs 3000 to every unemployed person till he/she gets the …

Attendance Through App Mandatory for MGNREGS Workers; New Move to Plug Pilferage
2 years, 7 months ago

Attendance Through App Mandatory for MGNREGS Workers; New Move to Plug Pilferage

News 18  

In a big move to check transparency, the Centre has made it mandatory from May 16 that the attendance of workers under the MGNREGS be captured through a mobile application with time-stamped and geo-tagged photographs rather than the attendance marked in registers. From May 16, 2022, for all the worksite wherein muster rolls are issued for 20 or more beneficiaries, …

The worrying cutbacks in rural jobs guarantee outlay, in charts
2 years, 11 months ago

The worrying cutbacks in rural jobs guarantee outlay, in charts

Live Mint  

If the Centre holds its ground on allocations to the rural employment guarantee scheme, this important measure of last resort will end up offering about one-third fewer person-days of work in 2022-23, show Mint calculations. In a report to the Lok Sabha, the panel criticized the lower allocation for 2022-23 to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme, which …

From April 1, Aadhaar must for welfare pension in Odisha
5 years ago

From April 1, Aadhaar must for welfare pension in Odisha

The Hindu  

The Odisha government has announced that from April 1 only beneficiaries with Aadhaar card will be given pension under the National Social Assistance Programme and the Madhubabu Pension Yojana. ‘Ensuring transparency’ In a letter addressed to all collectors, Bhaskar Sarma, secretary, Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Department, said: “Aadhaar seeding needs to be enhanced to 100% immediately …

Aadhaar card: 93% people in Odisha have it
5 years, 1 month ago

Aadhaar card: 93% people in Odisha have it

Live Mint  

Odisha has made appreciable progress by achieving 93 per cent Aadhaar enrolment, Unique Identification Authority of India Deputy Director General G Venugopal Reddy said on Tuesday. According to an official statement, the issue was discussed at the state-level Unique Identification Implementation Committee meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy. According to the available data, out of the …

MGNREGS has raised welfare, brought down inequality, says study
5 years, 11 months ago

MGNREGS has raised welfare, brought down inequality, says study

Live Mint  

At a time when political parties across the spectrum are searching for ways to provide cash transfers to rural and poor Indians, one such policy, started more than a decade ago, has come in for praise from a new study. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was launched in 2006 to provide 100 days of employment to villagers …

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