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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Minimum Wages Act for NGNREGA too: NAC by Anindo Dey

Minimum Wages Act for NGNREGA too: NAC by Anindo Dey

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published Published on Oct 25, 2010   modified Modified on Oct 25, 2010

The National Advisory Council (NAC) headed by Sonia Gandhi has endorsed the proposal of the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC) that the Minimum Wages Act be adhered to even for workers under MGNREGA. The NAC endorsement came on Saturday during its meeting in New Delhi.

Earlier on Saturday, during a meeting of the sub-group of the CEGC, attended by representatives from about six states, the issue of minimum wages being paid to NREGS workers was taken up. Sources said that all the states were of the view that the Centre should pay the excess sum to meet the criteria of the minimum wages.

"The proposal had come to the NAC during its meeting. The NAC endorsed it. But the issue on how the payment will be made or who will make it will be resolved later," said Aruna Roy, member NAC.

The states and the Centre have been at loggerheads even while agreeing that the Minimum Wages Act is to be followed in NREGA. But while the states has been asking the Centre to make the payment, the Centre has said it was state's onus of meeting the Minimum Wages Act and so they should make the payment.

"Over the next few days the issue would be taken up with the various ministries involved in it and a consensus would be arrived at," sources said adding that a committee may be set up for the purpose.

The NAC also endorsed the fact that rules of the MGNREGA be amended so that outside parties may be allowed for the social audit of the NREGS. Currently, Section 13 (b) of the Act allows only gram sabha to do a social audit of the scheme and keep any outsiders at bay.

Sources also said that the conflict between the two sections on payment of wages in NREGA, Section 6 (1) and (2) would also be resolved. "But till such time wages would be paid under Section 6 (2)," sources said.

The issue of NREGS workers being paid minimum wages has been gathering steam not only with petitions being filed from individuals from other states but a host of activists under the banner of the Rozgar Evum Suchna Ka Adhikar Abhiyan have been staging a sit in near the Statue Circle here since October 2.

The NAC also decided to put an end to manual scavenging by 2012 in the country. "Manual scavenging at every place has to be stopped, whatever the cost be. In the Railways too the practice will have to be stopped even if it means setting up costly chemical toilets," Roy said.


The Times of India, 25 October, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Minimum-Wages-Act-for-NGNREGA-too-NAC/articleshow/6806040.cms


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