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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Use of App to Record MGNREGA Attendance ‘Violation’ of Worker Rights, Act

Use of App to Record MGNREGA Attendance ‘Violation’ of Worker Rights, Act

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published Published on Jun 21, 2022   modified Modified on Jun 29, 2022

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The PAEG has said that workers are entitled to wages on a piece-rate, not time-rate, basis.

The Peoples’ Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG) has opposed the rural development ministry’s May 13 order discontinuing manual attendance at Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme worksites with more than 20 workers and replacing it with the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) app.

Terming the decision as a violation of law that will be regressive to the gains made in efforts to strengthen worksite transparency and exclude women, the PAEG—a group of academicians and activists attempting to ensure better implementation of NREGA via research, advocacy and public intervention—said that the move is fraught with technical challenges.

PAEG joint secretary Vijay Ram S said that the organisation is “disturbed that, instead of ensuring time-bound action on social audit findings (as is evidenced by the fact that action has not been taken in most of the cases arising from social audits conducted in the last financial year), the ministry is resorting to the use of ‘apps’ in the name of “increasing citizen oversight”.

In a letter addressed to the ministry’s secretary NN Sinha, the PAEG wrote that the “non-provision of physical muster rolls at NREGA worksites, which record work completed per day in addition to the daily attendance, is a direct violation of the Act”.

According to Section 15, Schedule I of the Act, Muster rolls shall be maintained at the worksite by marking attendance daily by a person authorised under the Scheme, the letter states.

Other signatories of the letter include Jayati Ghosh, professor and member, UN Advisory Board on Multiculturalism; Amit Basole, associate professor and head, Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim  Premji University; Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey, founder, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sagathan; Annie Raja, general secretary, National Federation of Indian Women; agricultural activist Nachiket Udupa; Anindita Adhikari and Rakshita Swamy, lead, Social Accountability Forum for Action and  Research; and Rajendran Narayanan, founder, LibTech India. 

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Newsclick.in, 21 June, 2022, https://www.newsclick.in/use-app-record-MGNREGA-attendance-violation-worker-rights-act


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