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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
The national average wage of an MGNREGA worker is Rs.178.44 per day, less than half of the Rs.375 per day minimum wage recommended by a Labour Ministry panel earlier this year.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Update of indices&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;This has been a long-pending demand, but the case may be stronger now...This is one of the demand-side interventions that the government is carrying out in light of the current scenario in the rural economy,&amp;rdquo; said a senior official of the Rural Development Ministry, referencing the current slowdown.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Changed patterns&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;They have now agreed to update the indices annually. MGNREGA wages will be linked to whichever index is higher in a particular State,&amp;rdquo; said the official, estimating that the increased wages based on updated inflation indices may result in 10% higher government expenditure on the scheme.&lt;br /&gt;
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<br />
<em>Stimulus measure to link pay to consumer price index with annual revision.<br />
</em><br />
Staring at a slump in rural demand and a slowdown in the rural economy, the Centre plans to inject more money into the UPA&rsquo;s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme by linking wages under the Act to an updated inflation index, which will be revised annually. It hopes this will increase wages, thus increasing purchasing power and reviving rural demand.<br />
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However, some economists question whether linking wage rates to a better inflation index will be sufficient, given that MGNREGA workers get paid much lower than market rates.<br />
<br />
The national average wage of an MGNREGA worker is Rs.178.44 per day, less than half of the Rs.375 per day minimum wage recommended by a Labour Ministry panel earlier this year.<br />
<br />
<em>Update of indices<br />
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<em>Stimulus measure to link pay to consumer price index with annual revision.<br />
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Staring at a slump in rural demand and a slowdown in the rural economy, the Centre plans to inject more money into the UPA&rsquo;s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme by linking wages under the Act to an updated inflation index, which will be revised annually. It hopes this will increase wages, thus increasing purchasing power and reviving rural demand.<br />
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<br />
The national average wage of an MGNREGA worker is Rs.178.44 per day, less than half of the Rs.375 per day minimum wage recommended by a Labour Ministry panel earlier this year.<br />
<br />
<em>Update of indices<br />
</em><br />
In the first week of September, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and the Labour Bureau informed the Rural Development Ministry that they had begun work to update the consumer price indices for rural areas (CPI-R) and agricultural labourers (CPI-AL) respectively.<br />
<br />
&ldquo;This has been a long-pending demand, but the case may be stronger now...This is one of the demand-side interventions that the government is carrying out in light of the current scenario in the rural economy,&rdquo; said a senior official of the Rural Development Ministry, referencing the current slowdown.<br />
<br />
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</em><br />
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<br />
&ldquo;They have now agreed to update the indices annually. MGNREGA wages will be linked to whichever index is higher in a particular State,&rdquo; said the official, estimating that the increased wages based on updated inflation indices may result in 10% higher government expenditure on the scheme.<br />
<br />
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-The Hindu

Stimulus measure to link pay to consumer price index with annual revision.

Staring at a slump in rural demand and a slowdown in the rural economy, the Centre plans to inject more money into the UPA&rsquo;s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National...'
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Government to peg MGNREGA wages to inflation in bid to hike incomes -Priscilla Jebaraj

-The Hindu Stimulus measure to link pay to consumer price index with annual revision. Staring at a slump in rural demand and a slowdown in the rural economy, the Centre plans to inject more money into the UPA’s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme by linking wages under the Act to an updated inflation index, which will be revised annually. It hopes this will increase wages, thus increasing purchasing power and reviving rural demand. However, some economists question whether linking wage rates to a better inflation index will be sufficient, given that MGNREGA workers get paid much lower than market rates. The national average wage of an MGNREGA worker is Rs.178.44 per day, less than half of the Rs.375 per day minimum wage recommended by a Labour Ministry panel earlier this year. Update of indices In the first week of September, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and the Labour Bureau informed the Rural Development Ministry that they had begun work to update the consumer price indices for rural areas (CPI-R) and agricultural labourers (CPI-AL) respectively. “This has been a long-pending demand, but the case may be stronger now...This is one of the demand-side interventions that the government is carrying out in light of the current scenario in the rural economy,” said a senior official of the Rural Development Ministry, referencing the current slowdown. Changed patterns “The consumption basket of CPI-AL [which determines MGNREGA wage revisions] has not been updated for more than three decades, and rural consumption patterns have changed drastically in that time,” said the official. Food items make up more than two-thirds of the CPI-AL consumption basket, but rural workers today spend a much smaller percentage of their money on subsidised food, and an increasingly larger amount on health, education and transport costs. “They have now agreed to update the indices annually. MGNREGA wages will be linked to whichever index is higher in a particular State,” said the official, estimating that the increased wages based on updated inflation indices may result in 10% higher government expenditure on the scheme. Please click here to read more.