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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Study reveals 71% NREGA workers did not receive their wages on time -Basant Kumar Mohanty

Study reveals 71% NREGA workers did not receive their wages on time -Basant Kumar Mohanty

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published Published on Nov 1, 2021   modified Modified on Nov 3, 2021

-The Telegraph

These labourers have been working under the scheme between April and September this year but the Centre sent wages in September, and not within 15 days 

Ashok Munduri from Chhotalagia village in Jharkhand borrowed Rs 5,000 in July to rent a tractor to plough his land. He had to sell a pig to repay the amount a month later, for he hadn’t received his rural job scheme wages.

A study’s findings, released on Friday, said 71 per cent of those who had worked under the scheme between April and September this year did not receive their wages on time.

“I had worked 23 days on a land development project in my village under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in June and July,” the paddy grower from West Singhbhum district said.

“I borrowed the sum in the last week of July, hoping to repay it in a week after I got my wages. But I didn’t receive my wages even by the end of August. So I had to sell my pig.”

The Union rural development ministry sent the wages to his account in September.

The scheme requires the wages to be paid within 15 days of the end of each phase of a project. State officials are mandated to send to the Union ministry funds transfer orders (FTOs) within eight days, seeking payment for the workers. The ministry is supposed to pay the wages in another seven days.

Munduri said the job plan, which entitles every rural household to up to 100 days’ paid and unskilled work a year, was a “good” scheme. “But delays in wage payment are a big problem,” he added.

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The Telegraph, 1 November, 2021, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/study-reveals-71-mgnrega-workers-did-not-receive-their-wages-on-time/cid/1836763


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