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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Around 5 crore MGNREGA workers and their families will have to spend their Diwali without food & sweets due to pending wages
Around 5 crore MGNREGA workers and their families will have to spend their Diwali without food & sweets due to pending wages

Around 5 crore MGNREGA workers and their families will have to spend their Diwali without food & sweets due to pending wages

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published Published on Nov 3, 2021   modified Modified on Nov 4, 2021

-Press release by Peoples' Action for Employment Guarantee dated 3rd November 2021

About 8 crore NREGA payments are pending as on November 3, 2021 according to Report 8.1.1 of the NREGA Management Information System (MIS). This means, for nearly 5 crore workers across the country this will be a Kali Diwali. Following the raging debate about NREGA funds running out with 5 months remaining, the People’s Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG) seeks to point out how serious the crisis currently is. The attached Note has detailed descriptions of the distressing extent of delays in wage payments across key States. On such a festive occasion when people not only expect to be paid their due wages and hopefully a bonus, NREGA workers have not been paid wages for the work they have done. The hope of being paid in the near future is also bleak.

The Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) claimed that there are Rs. 8,900 crore available for work to carry on. But this is not borne out by the facts of allocations, payments made, and pending liabilities. If MoRD’s claims are indeed true, then what explains over 8 crore pending transactions as on November 3, 2021?

These payments are calculated from fund transfer orders (FTOs) that have been generated but not paid as of today. Each transaction represents a worker who has worked for a week or 15 days. There are some cases where one worker would have several pending payments due, which only intensifies the distress. It is worse for those workers whose payments have been rejected and yet not corrected. As on November 3, 2021, 24.15 lakh transactions adding up to approximately Rs 300 crore of NREGA wages were rejected due to technical reasons.  It is worse for those workers whose payments have been rejected because they are not available to them unless corrected.

From the time the Central Government allocated Rs 73,000 crore, reducing last year's revised estimate by 34 percent, it became clear that money would run out approximately halfway through the year. The Central Government did find money to pay its own employees 28 percent Dearness Allowance and 3 percent Bonus for Diwali, but chooses to look away from existing dues for NREGA workers, leave alone their situation during festivals like Diwali.

For further details please contact: 

Jayati Ghosh (9810371353) , Nikhil Dey (9910421260), Rajendran Narayanan (9620318492), Rakshita Swamy (9818838588) 

Email: paeg.india@gmail.com

 

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Press release by Peoples' Action for Employment Guarantee dated 3rd November 2021


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