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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 85% Rural Work Wages Paid On Time: BJP. Claim Reflects Pay Orders Not Wages -IndiaSpend

85% Rural Work Wages Paid On Time: BJP. Claim Reflects Pay Orders Not Wages -IndiaSpend

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published Published on Jun 6, 2018   modified Modified on Jun 6, 2018
-FactChecker.in/ IndiaSpend Team

Mumbai: On completing four years in government, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released a slew of infographics based on what it offered as achievements. Two such claims relate to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), a 12-year-old rural make-work programme launched in 2006 by the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, led by the Congress party.

The BJP–whose leader Prime Minister Narendra Modi once said the MGNREGS was “a living monument” to the UPA’s policy failures–has now claimed “payment of wages to workers within 15 days in 85% of the cases as compared to long delays in the past” and “highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56%”.

Both the claims are true, as per government data (here and here), but the truth is more complicated: The 85% claim refers not to actual wages but a technical step in the payment process, and an independent study found less than a third were paid on time.

The data for payments within 15 days are for 2017-18 (not mentioned in infographic), while the women’s participation is for 2016-17.

Study shows wage payments are delayed

Although the government claimed in an October 2017 statement that 85% of wages due to about 76 million MGNREGS workers for the year 2017-18 until September 15, 2017, were paid on time, an independent study has shown this is not true, IndiaSpend reported on May 5, 2018. Conducted across 10 states from April to September 2017, the study found that no more than 32% of payments were on time.

The government does not acknowledge the delay in payments after the fund transfer order (FTO)–a demand that is first raised at the district level, and then at the state level for transfer of funds to the worker’s accounts–is generated at the block or panchayat (local government units), the study noted. So, delays after the FTO are unaccounted for. The average time taken to credit payment when FTO generation exceeds 15 days is 52 days, the study noted.

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FactChecker.in/ IndiaSpend Team, 6 June, 2018, http://factchecker.in/85-rural-work-wages-paid-on-time-bjp-claim-reflects-pay-orders-not-wages/


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