Bihar to fix snags in MGNREGA’s app-based attendance system
1 year, 11 months ago

Bihar to fix snags in MGNREGA’s app-based attendance system

The Hindu  

The district administration in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur has stepped in to help workers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme resolve the problems they face while marking their attendance using the National Mobile Monitoring System. We have deputed an additional PO for the task who will be given access to the app.” Speaking to The Hindu, Muzaffarpur District Magistrate Pranav Kumar said no MGNREGA workers would be staging a sit-in as the issue has been resolved. ‘No mobile connectivity’ Sanjay Sahni, coordinator of MGNREGA Watch, an organization based in the district, had pointed out that thousands of workers employed at Sakra, Kudhani, Gaighat, Bandra, Mudaul, Mushahari, Bochaha, Aurai and Katra blocks in the district had not received their wages as their attendance had not been recorded on the app. “We will stage an indefinite dharna on the premises of the District Magistrate’s office from January 17 if the attendance of thousands of MGNREGA workers are not properly recorded,” Mr. Sahni said.

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Implement MGNREGA effectively, says AIAWU
1 day, 22 hours ago

Implement MGNREGA effectively, says AIAWU

The Hindu  

Members of the Kalaburagi district unit of All India Agricultural Workers Union staged a protest outside the office of the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister and district in-charge Priyank Kharge demanding effective implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. District president of AIAWU Bheemshetty Yempalli has, along with farmers, in a memorandum addressed to Mr. Kharge, …

Anganwadi workers await dues for role in Ladki Bahin scheme roll-out
1 week, 1 day ago

Anganwadi workers await dues for role in Ladki Bahin scheme roll-out

The Hindu  

Anganwadi workers in Maharashtra are still awaiting payment for their crucial role in implementing the Mahayuti government’s flagship Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly election in November last year. Recounting the overwhelming experience of handling a large number of applications in cities, Sangeeta Kamble, an anganwadi worker in Mumbai’s Mankhurd, said: “Women would start lining up …

Spike in NREGS payment delays, technical glitches, say workers
1 month ago

Spike in NREGS payment delays, technical glitches, say workers

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: Delayed payments, largescale deletion of names of workers and frequent technical glitches in several states continue to hobble the country’s flagship rural job guarantee programme, the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, a coalition of several grassroots organisations, alleged on Thursday. The coalition, which works with workers’ unions, also said wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Job Guarantee Scheme have …

Daily wage workers struggling as 100-day job scheme is delayed this year, says association
6 months, 1 week ago

Daily wage workers struggling as 100-day job scheme is delayed this year, says association

The Hindu  

The delay in commencing work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has adversely affected daily wage workers in rural areas of Karaikal. A. Backiyaraj, another daily wage worker from Nedungadu commune, said he too got only 70 days of work under the scheme last year. “We need 100 days of work as agricultural work is scarce and …

Workers in Muzaffarpur endure penury as wages are delayed under the MGNREGA scheme
1 year, 4 months ago

Workers in Muzaffarpur endure penury as wages are delayed under the MGNREGA scheme

The Hindu  

Sudama Devi, a resident of Dhabauli village under Mohammadpur Sura panchayat, does not have enough food to feed her five children. Ms. Devi is among the many workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme in Bihar who have not received their wages in the past four months. In Muzaffarpur, 80% of the workers under the MGNREGA …

Festive bonanza: Kerala to give ₹1,000 as Onam allowance to MGNREGS, AUEGS workers
1 year, 4 months ago

Festive bonanza: Kerala to give ₹1,000 as Onam allowance to MGNREGS, AUEGS workers

Hindustan Times  

The Kerala government on Friday announced that it will pay an Onam allowance of ₹1,000 to those who have completed 100 days of work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the state scheme of Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme. “It has been decided that those who have done 100 days of work under MGNREGS and AUEGS …

App-based attendance spells trouble for MGNREGS workers in Prakasam district
1 year, 7 months ago

App-based attendance spells trouble for MGNREGS workers in Prakasam district

The Hindu  

The new National Mobile Monitoring Software App has come as a bane for wage seekers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Failure to do so would mean loss of payment for the backbreaking work done unmindful of the harsh sun, especially in summer when they cannot expect any work in farms elsewhere, a group of workers complain …

MGNREGS Workers Protest over Wages, Drop in 'Person Days', Attendance on App; No Rollback, Say Govt Officials
1 year, 8 months ago

MGNREGS Workers Protest over Wages, Drop in 'Person Days', Attendance on App; No Rollback, Say Govt Officials

News 18  

Kesar Devi is still awaiting wages for the 35 days she worked between January and March this year under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. According to the Ministry of Rural Development’s Management Information System portal, since the NMMS app was launched, the number of ‘person days’ generated between January and February 2023 fell to 34.59 crore, which …

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 …

Employment days under Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme at a five-year low
1 year, 11 months ago

Employment days under Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme at a five-year low

The Hindu  

The average days of employment provided per household under the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme is at a five-year low, this financial year. With less than two-months for the financial year to close, there are at least nine States and union territories which have utilised less than 70% of projected person days. Person days under MGNREGS is defined as …

Laboured wages: On MGNREGS payments to States
2 years ago

Laboured wages: On MGNREGS payments to States

The Hindu  

A testy exchange in the Rajya Sabha between the Minister of State for Rural Development, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, and the Trinamool Congress MP, Jawhar Sircar, on the withholding of funds for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in West Bengal laid bare a key implementation issue — wage delays. The delay in the payment, which is contrary to …

Government forms panel to look into MGNREGA’s efficacy
2 years, 1 month ago

Government forms panel to look into MGNREGA’s efficacy

The Hindu  

The Central government has constituted a committee to review the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme, especially to assess the programme’s efficacy as a poverty alleviation tool. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was passed in 2005, and the demand-driven scheme guarantees 100 days of unskilled work per year for every rural household …

Skill training of rural jobs scheme MGNREGS workers lags; Centre blames it on the States
2 years, 1 month ago

Skill training of rural jobs scheme MGNREGS workers lags; Centre blames it on the States

The Hindu  

Facing less than a lukewarm response to project Unnati, which aims to reduce dependence on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme by imparting skill training to its beneficiaries, the Union Rural Development Ministry wants to link performances of the States under the project with its labour budget for the upcoming financial year. But we can’t turn a blind …

Promise of 300 days of work under MGNREGA fails to prevent exodus of labourers from Odisha
2 years, 2 months ago

Promise of 300 days of work under MGNREGA fails to prevent exodus of labourers from Odisha

The Hindu  

Juta Majhi was just a few kilometres away from the Kantabanji railway station in Odisha when the Balangir district police intercepted him last week. Mr. Majhi was among the 500 workers who were prevented by the Balangir police over the past 10 days from migrating to other States in “inhuman conditions”. The Odisha government’s promise of 300 days of assured …

Clean swipe for MGNREGS attendance app only in 8 States
2 years, 3 months ago

Clean swipe for MGNREGS attendance app only in 8 States

The Hindu  

Five months after the Union Government's order making it mandatory to capture attendance of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme workers through government mobile application-National Mobile Monitoring System at work sites where 20 or more workers are employed, at least three States — Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Assam — are pushing for making this universal, though majority of the …

MGNREGA workers in Haryana protest for 365 workdays, ₹600 wages
2 years, 3 months ago

MGNREGA workers in Haryana protest for 365 workdays, ₹600 wages

Hindustan Times  

Hundreds of MGNREGA workers on Thursday held a protest demanding that their wages should be increased to ₹600 and the work days should be increased to 365 days. Hundreds of MGNREGA workers on Thursday held a protest demanding that their wages should be increased to ₹ 600 and the work days should be increased to 365 days. Ram Avtar Singh, …

Revoke restrictions on MGNREGS works: Minister
2 years, 5 months ago

Revoke restrictions on MGNREGS works: Minister

The Hindu  

The Union government should amend the restrictions on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme works that can be taken up in panchayats, Minister for Local Self Governments M.V. The Union government order limiting the number of works that can be taken up simultaneously under the MGNREGS in a panchayat to 20 is a huge setback to the State, the …

App-based attendance hits rural jobs scheme workers
2 years, 7 months ago

App-based attendance hits rural jobs scheme workers

The Hindu  

The Union government has made capturing of attendance through its app, National Mobile Monitoring System, compulsory at worksites where 20 or more workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme are employed. This move comes despite many problems, including patchy Internet connectivity in rural areas and little or no technical support. The Ministry’s directive claims that the app, …

MGNREGS: Attendance through mobile app mandatory for workers; new move to stop pilferage
2 years, 7 months ago

MGNREGS: Attendance through mobile app mandatory for workers; new move to stop pilferage

Firstpost  

The NMMS App was rolled out by the Centre on 21 May, 2021 but at the request of states and Union Territories, the utilisation of the App had been kept voluntary so far though the states were asked to progressively start using the mobile application frequently In a big move to check transparency, the Centre has made it mandatory from …

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, …

A.P. surpassed the person days approved under MGNREGS, says Peddireddi
2 years, 9 months ago

A.P. surpassed the person days approved under MGNREGS, says Peddireddi

The Hindu  

The State government has generated nearly 24 crore person days under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme against 23.5 crore person days approved by Central government, according to Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy. Mr. Ramachandra Reddy said the expenditure incurred under the scheme during the financial year 2021-22 was ₹7,508 crore, of which ₹4,909 …

Aakar Patel | Poverty on the rise, jobs begin to vanish: Will India explode?
3 years, 3 months ago

Aakar Patel | Poverty on the rise, jobs begin to vanish: Will India explode?

Deccan Chronicle  

A few months after taking office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in the Lok Sabha that MNREGA would be continued only because it would show how poorly the Manmohan Singh government had performed. MNREGA guarantees 100 days of employment in the year at Rs 200 per day to each registered household, meaning that the family would receive Rs 20,000 for …

Activists seek 50 more days of work under MGNREGA
3 years, 6 months ago

Activists seek 50 more days of work under MGNREGA

The Hindu  

More than 2 lakh rural households have already completed their guaranteed 100 days of employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme within the first three months of the financial year, according to the scheme’s database. Given the high rates of rural job loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic, activists belonging to the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha wrote …

Uttarakhand increases MGNREGA work to 150 days from 100, bans single-use plastic
3 years, 11 months ago

Uttarakhand increases MGNREGA work to 150 days from 100, bans single-use plastic

Hindustan Times  

The Uttarakhand government has increased the number of working days guaranteed per year to the poor under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act programme from 100 to 150 on Saturday. 15 other decisions were taken by the cabinet including a complete ban on single-use plastic, introduction of a new state excise policy and reopening schools for classes 6-12 from …

Increase employment limit under MGNREGA from 100 to 200 days: Rajasthan CM to PM
4 years, 6 months ago

Increase employment limit under MGNREGA from 100 to 200 days: Rajasthan CM to PM

Live Mint  

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase employment limit under the MGNREGA from 100 to 200 days which would benefit 70 lakh families in rural areas of the state hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. He said the Centre has started the 'Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan' to provide employment at the local level to migrant …

MGNREGA work given to 2.33 crore people in 1.87 lakh gram panchayats: Nirmala Sitharaman
4 years, 7 months ago

MGNREGA work given to 2.33 crore people in 1.87 lakh gram panchayats: Nirmala Sitharaman

India Today  

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said nearly 14.62 crore person-days of work has been generated till May 13 under the MGNREGA. Addressing her second press conference in as many days to give details of the Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nirmala Sitharaman said so far a total of 2.33 crore people have received …

Bihar: More than 5 lakh rural workers, migrant labourers provided employment under MGNREGA
4 years, 8 months ago

Bihar: More than 5 lakh rural workers, migrant labourers provided employment under MGNREGA

India Today  

In a major move to provide immediate relief to the state's rural workforce, including those who have returned from other states after a lockdown was imposed owing to the rising cases of coronavirus, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has delivered employment at the doorstep of more than five lakh people under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme. …

Coronavirus lockdown | Rajasthan government steps in to give regular wages to poor villagers
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus lockdown | Rajasthan government steps in to give regular wages to poor villagers

The Hindu  

After a massive slump in the number of labourers engaged at the sites of the rural employment guarantee works during the COVID-19 lockdown, the Rajasthan government has initiated steps to generate labour-intensive opportunities in order to give regular wages to the poor villagers. Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot, who holds the rural development portfolio, said here on Thursday that 6.08 …

From MGNREGS to housing scheme to model villages, key govt programmes fall victim to apathy, fail to deliver on intended lines
5 years ago

From MGNREGS to housing scheme to model villages, key govt programmes fall victim to apathy, fail to deliver on intended lines

Firstpost  

MGNREGS is basically fall back option for the rural households when no better employment opportunity is available, however, the demand for work is influenced by various factors like timely monsoon or availability of more remunerative employment opportunities. New Delhi: In a candid admission, the government said Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has not been able to deliver 100 …

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