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  • It was presented by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development.
  • MGNREGA launched in 2005, gives a legal guarantee of a hundred days of wage employment to adult members of a rural household willing for unskilled manual work.
    • Implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development.
    • The Central Government notifies the wage rate for each financial year. 

 

  • Issues with the scheme as observed by the committee
    • Shortage of funds: It has a cascading effect on various important aspects such as the timely release of wages, the release of materials, etc.
    • Issue of Fake Job Cards: deprives genuine beneficiaries of their dues and acts as a tool for diverting funds.
    • Low wages rate:  labourers involved in miscellaneous work earn higher wages.
    • Lack of social audits: only 14% of planned gram panchayats were audited in 2020-21.

 

  • Recommendation of the committee
    • Revision of Base Rate and base year to solve the issue of lower wage rates.
    • Utilisation of a better inflation-linked index as the current index (Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labour) is not sufficient.
    • Increase in number of days of work.
    • Issuance of separate job card for a differently abled person in a household.

 

Government steps to increase the efficiency of MGNREGA

  • National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) app to capture the attendance of MGNREGS workers.
  • Geo-MGNREGA for geo-tagging of all completed works under MGNREGS.
  • Project “UNNATI” to upgrade the skill base of the MGNREGS workers.
  • Aadhaar Payment Bridge System (APBS) to ensure speedy payments and reduce rejection.
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