There are round 27.5 crore registered employees beneath the agricultural employment scheme.(File)
The variety of individual days generated beneath Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Assure Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) in January and February this yr following the implementation of an app-based attendance system has gone down in comparison with earlier years, knowledge compiled by a civil society group has confirmed.
As teams of MGNREGA employees proceed to protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi towards the brand new attendance and cost methods for over a month, knowledge compiled by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, which has been on the helm of the protest, confirmed 34.59 crore individual days have been generated in January and February this yr.
This was considerably decrease than January and February 2022, when 53.07 crore individual days of labor have been generated.
In 2021, 56.94 crore individual days of labor have been generated in the identical interval. In 2020, it was 47.75 crore individual days within the two months, whereas in 2019, 47.86 crore individual days have been generated in January and February.
The info has been calculated utilizing the MIS Report.
MGNREGA employees protesting the Nationwide Cell Monitoring System (NMMS) have stated their attendance just isn’t getting marked because of community points in rural areas and have demanded a rollback. The employees are additionally protesting towards the Aadhaar-Primarily based Fee System (ABPS), which has been made necessary, as a number of employees do not need ABPS accounts.
In line with the information compiled by the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, on February 1, lower than 40 per cent of complete MGNREGA employees have been eligible for ABPS funds. That is over 10 crore employees throughout the nation. The NMMS app is used to file employees’ attendance at MGNREGA worksites by importing geotagged pictures twice a day. It was made necessary throughout all worksites on January 1, 2023.
On January 30, 2023, the Rural Growth Ministry introduced all MGNREGA wage funds should be made solely by means of Aadhaar-based funds from February 1.
There are round 27.5 crore registered employees beneath MGNREGA, 8.4 crore employees labored in 2022-23, and 272.8 crore individual days of labor was generated.The Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Assure Scheme, higher often known as MGNREGA or NREGA, is a flagship scheme geared toward enhancing livelihood safety of households in rural areas of the nation by offering a minimum of 100 days of assured wage employment in a monetary yr to each family whose grownup members volunteer to do unskilled handbook work.
(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is printed from a syndicated feed.)
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