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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NREGA wage delay adds to Covid pain -Basant Kumar Mohanty

NREGA wage delay adds to Covid pain -Basant Kumar Mohanty

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published Published on May 18, 2021   modified Modified on May 30, 2021

-The Telegraph

Workers yet to receive a month's payment from Centre and state at a time, no work is available owing to the pandemic

Koushalya Hembram, 42, of Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district worked under the rural job scheme for 21 days in April. But the unmarried resident of Podahat village had not received her wages till Monday.

No other work is available in her area amid a resurgent Covid.

“I keep checking my mobile phone in vain for a message saying my wages have been credited to my account,” Koushalya said.

“It shouldn’t take this long. We are not receiving our NREGA wages on time, and there’s no other work available. What shall we do?”

Koushalya had worked with nine others on a pond renovation project in Bhalumara village in three phases from April 2 to 8, 10 to 16 and 21 to 27.

None of the 10 has received their wages, which should be more than Rs 4,500, with the Centre providing Rs 200 a day and the state government adding another Rs 25 a day that it has promised to introduce from this financial year.

According to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the workers have to be paid within 15 days of the end of a particular phase of work.

Koushalya should therefore have received her first wage payment by April 23, the second by May 1 and the third by May 12.

Sandeep Kumar, coordinator, Sahayata Kendra, a non-governmental organisation that educates villagers in the district about government welfare programmes and helps them secure their rights, blamed the Centre.

He said the state government had completed the formality of sending the funds transfer order to the Union rural development ministry for release of the NREGA workers’ wages.

“The payment is pending with the central government. Every day, the workers are coming to us to enquire,” Kumar said.

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The Telegraph, 18 May, 2021, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/coronavirus-outbreak-nrega-wage-delay-adds-to-covid-pain/cid/1815903?fbclid=IwAR3oECNLqhsgz9VS7ODLGB1l7HD75vqTGI_io022-XQfr_I7lXfk6Xpzgqg


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