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Beneficiaries may not get arrears by NJ Nair

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published Published on Feb 21, 2011   modified Modified on Feb 21, 2011
Loss due to MGNREGS wage revision put at Rs.9.8 crore

Revised rate below the rate fixed by the State

Centre ignored State's plea for wage parity

About 9.8 lakh beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) are unlikely to get arrears at the revised minimum wage rate of Rs.150 fixed by the Centre from January 1.

The loss on this score has been estimated at about Rs.9.8 crore.

A Union Rural Development Ministry notification on January 14 said that beneficiaries of the scheme were eligible for a revised minimum wage of Rs.150 from January 1, 2011, against the Rs.125 paid to them earlier. Subsequently, in another notification on Fe bruary 14, the Ministry said though the revised wage rate had come into from January 1, either that day “or the date of actual payment of the revised wage rate, whichever is later” should be considered for disbursing the wages.

Going by the official data, a labourer who worked for four days in a month was eligible to get Rs.100 arrears.

Thus the arrears amounted to Rs.9.8 crore. This may vary depending on the number of days the beneficiaries had worked in January.

Official sources told The Hindu here that by changing the date, beneficiaries who had collected their wages had been deprived of the enhanced rate fixed by the Centre.

Even the revised rate of the Centre was much below the minimum wage rate of Rs.200 fixed by the State government.

On enhancing the minimum wages, the Local Administration Department had repeatedly urged the Centre to ensure wage parity for the scheme, but to no avail.

The wage rate for the scheme was revised from Rs.125 to Rs.150 after linking it with the consumer price index. Thus beneficiaries in Haryana would get Rs.179 and Chandigarh Rs.174, which were still lower than the minimum rate of the State government. The State government's plea to clear the confusion over the disbursal date a fortnight ago failed to invoke a positive response

The Hindu, 21 February, 2011, http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/21/stories/2011022151110300.htm


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