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&lt;em&gt;Most technocratic 
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constructed across the country.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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transparent for those who it affects the most &amp;ndash; the workers employed 
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&lt;br /&gt;
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stark contrast with growing evidence from Jharkhand, of how the recent 
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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In 
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great conviction that the ruling dispensation&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;initiative to geo-tag 
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under this scheme?&lt;br /&gt;
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stark contrast with growing evidence from Jharkhand, of how the recent 
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workers.&lt;br /&gt;
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disempowering workers and severely diluting transparency and 
accountability in MGNREGA.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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great conviction that the ruling dispensation&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;initiative to geo-tag 
all MGNREGA assets&amp;rdquo; to put them &amp;ldquo;in public domain has established 
greater transparency&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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the online Management Information System (MIS) of MGNREGA, GeoMGNREGA &amp;ndash; 
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&lt;br /&gt;
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stark contrast with growing evidence from Jharkhand, of how the recent 
technological interventions being imposed by the ministry of rural 
development are making the programme more opaque and cumbersome for&amp;nbsp; 
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&lt;br /&gt;
Over the last few years, the implementation of MGNREGA 
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providing employment and wages to workers, be it registering the demand 
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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Ground 
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&lt;br /&gt;
Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/128900/technology-fetish-diluting-mgnrega-accountability-transparency/&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Most technocratic 
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In 
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&lt;br /&gt;
In 2016-17, the rural development ministry
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&lt;br /&gt;
But is this idea &amp;ndash; which sounds 
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Over the last few years, the implementation of MGNREGA 
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the administrators than for actually helping workers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ground 
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disempowering workers and severely diluting transparency and 
accountability in MGNREGA.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/128900/technology-fetish-diluting-mgnrega-accountability-transparency/&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more. &lt;br /&gt;
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<em>Most technocratic 
interventions introduced in MGNREGA appear to be designed to aid 
administrators rather than for actually helping workers.<br />
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In 
his 2017-18 Budget speech, finance minister Arun Jaitley asserted with 
great conviction that the ruling dispensation&rsquo;s &ldquo;initiative to geo-tag 
all MGNREGA assets&rdquo; to put them &ldquo;in public domain has established 
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<br />
The claim of &ldquo;greater transparency&rdquo; stands in 
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Ground 
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Most technocratic 
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In 
his 2017-18 Budget speech, finance minister Arun Jaitley asserted with 
great conviction that the ruling dispensation&rsquo;s &ldquo;initiative to geo-tag 
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-TheWire.in<br />
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<em>Most technocratic 
interventions introduced in MGNREGA appear to be designed to aid 
administrators rather than for actually helping workers.<br />
</em><br />
In 
his 2017-18 Budget speech, finance minister Arun Jaitley asserted with 
great conviction that the ruling dispensation&rsquo;s &ldquo;initiative to geo-tag 
all MGNREGA assets&rdquo; to put them &ldquo;in public domain has established 
greater transparency&rdquo;.<br />
<br />
In 2016-17, the rural development ministry
started an initiative called &lsquo;GeoMGNREGA&rsquo;, under which it was proposed 
that all assets created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural 
Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) were to be tagged with their 
respective geospatial locations. To a technologically-savvy individual 
the online Management Information System (MIS) of MGNREGA, GeoMGNREGA &ndash; 
as envisaged by the rural development ministry &ndash; will allow access to 
photographs and geospatial locations for lakhs of MGNREGA assets 
constructed across the country.<br />
<br />
But is this idea &ndash; which sounds 
quite impressive &ndash; actually helping in making the programme more 
transparent for those who it affects the most &ndash; the workers employed 
under this scheme?<br />
<br />
The claim of &ldquo;greater transparency&rdquo; stands in 
stark contrast with growing evidence from Jharkhand, of how the recent 
technological interventions being imposed by the ministry of rural 
development are making the programme more opaque and cumbersome for&nbsp; 
workers.<br />
<br />
Over the last few years, the implementation of MGNREGA 
has progressively been linked with the MIS. Every process related to 
providing employment and wages to workers, be it registering the demand 
for work, allocating work, generating muster rolls for starting the 
scheme, or issuing orders paying wages and material etc, has been linked
with the MIS through the real-time transaction-based electronic fund 
management system (eFMS).<br />
<br />
Even though measures for decentralised 
planning, implementation and monitoring of the schemes are ingrained in 
the MGNREGA, there is a growing tendency within the ministry to play 
&lsquo;Big Brother&rsquo; and use the MIS to control the implementation of the 
programme from New Delhi. It is no surprise that most technocratic 
interventions introduced in MGNREGA over the last few years &ndash; electronic
muster rolls, eFMS, GeoMGNREGA &ndash; appear to be designed more for aiding 
the administrators than for actually helping workers.<br />
<br />
Ground 
reports from Jharkhand suggest that these new technical systems are 
disempowering workers and severely diluting transparency and 
accountability in MGNREGA.<br />
<br />
Please <a href="https://thewire.in/128900/technology-fetish-diluting-mgnrega-accountability-transparency/">click here</a> to read more. <br />
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Modi Government's Tech Fetish is Diluting MGNREGA's Accountability -Siraj Dutta

-TheWire.in Most technocratic interventions introduced in MGNREGA appear to be designed to aid administrators rather than for actually helping workers. In his 2017-18 Budget speech, finance minister Arun Jaitley asserted with great conviction that the ruling dispensation’s “initiative to geo-tag all MGNREGA assets” to put them “in public domain has established greater transparency”. In 2016-17, the rural development ministrystarted an initiative called ‘GeoMGNREGA’, under which it was proposed that all assets created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) were to be tagged with their respective geospatial locations. To a technologically-savvy individual the online Management Information System (MIS) of MGNREGA, GeoMGNREGA – as envisaged by the rural development ministry – will allow access to photographs and geospatial locations for lakhs of MGNREGA assets constructed across the country. But is this idea – which sounds quite impressive – actually helping in making the programme more transparent for those who it affects the most – the workers employed under this scheme? The claim of “greater transparency” stands in stark contrast with growing evidence from Jharkhand, of how the recent technological interventions being imposed by the ministry of rural development are making the programme more opaque and cumbersome for  workers. Over the last few years, the implementation of MGNREGA has progressively been linked with the MIS. Every process related to providing employment and wages to workers, be it registering the demand for work, allocating work, generating muster rolls for starting the scheme, or issuing orders paying wages and material etc, has been linkedwith the MIS through the real-time transaction-based electronic fund management system (eFMS). Even though measures for decentralised planning, implementation and monitoring of the schemes are ingrained in the MGNREGA, there is a growing tendency within the ministry to play ‘Big Brother’ and use the MIS to control the implementation of the programme from New Delhi. It is no surprise that most technocratic interventions introduced in MGNREGA over the last few years – electronicmuster rolls, eFMS, GeoMGNREGA – appear to be designed more for aiding the administrators than for actually helping workers. Ground reports from Jharkhand suggest that these new technical systems are disempowering workers and severely diluting transparency and accountability in MGNREGA. Please click here to read more.