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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MGNREGA hires plummet by 23 per cent in notebandi November -Subodh Varma

MGNREGA hires plummet by 23 per cent in notebandi November -Subodh Varma

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published Published on Dec 13, 2016   modified Modified on Dec 13, 2016
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Modi government's demonetisation move seems to have taken the wind out of the sails of an already faltering job guarantee scheme. The number of households getting work in November dropped by 23% compared to the previous month and those being turned back empty-handed jumped to a staggering 23.4 lakh, almost twice the number in October.

Compared to the same month last year, work given this November is down by over 55%, indicating this is not a seasonal decline peculiar to November. With the overall employment last year, work given this November is down by over 55%, indicating this is not a seasonal decline peculiar to November.

With the overall employment situation grim, this dip in jobs is expected to increase distress in rural areas.

If there was work available (in MGNREGA), we would have got some relief at least. Now we get casual labour work at just Rs 50 per day, sometimes. Mostly we are just sitting, waiting," says Suniya Laguri, a 20-year old woman in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district.

Suniya is voicing a concern that finds echoes across India in greater or lesser measure. Rural wages have crashed due to non-availability of cash as well as the desperation of the poorest — agricultural labourers and small or marginal farmers — to try and earn something in order to survive.

Mangoo Ram of Hardoi district in UP says his family survived the first few weeks by getting basic food items on credit and cutting down on an already minimal consumption. But now, in the fifth week of demonetisation, the situation is dire.

Most of the wages earned for work under the job guarantee scheme are deposited in banks or post offices. So, why has work itself suffered so much?

The answer is not clear, with people citing different reasons. Shankar Singh of advocacy NGO Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan in Rajasthan says everybody — MGNREGA employees as well as people seeking work — were too preoccupied with standing at banks or post office lines for the first few weeks. This directly affected the whole system. "Already, there was a squeeze on expenditure, with government not releasing adequate funds and gram panchayats overstretched. Notebandi has come on top of that, that is why this problem," Singh said.

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The Times of India, 13 December, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/MGNREGA-hires-plummet-by-23-per-cent-in-notebandi-November/articleshow/55950051.cms


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