-The Hindu States creating artificial demand, says official; workers pushed into ‘forced labour’ by delayed payments, say activists The Centre’s flagship rural employment scheme has run out of funds halfway through the financial year, and supplementary budgetary allocations will not come to the rescue for at least another month when the next Parliamentary session begins. According to its own financial statement, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme shows...
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Centre to revise wage computation for rural, agricultural workers -AM Jigeesh
-The Hindu Business Line Labour Ministry has decided to change the base year of the Consumer Price Index for agriculture and rural workers Union Labour Ministry has decided to revise the wage calculation for India’s workforce. The Ministry, in its latest computations, has decided to change the base year of the Consumer Price Index for Agriculture Labourers and Rural Workers (CPI-AL&RW) to 2019. At present, the base year is 1986-87. According to a...
More »Controversial order to split MNREGA payments on caste lines withdrawn after states object -Neelam Pandey
-ThePrint.in Social justice ministry noted that its field report indicated a deepening of caste division within village communities over segregation of workers into SCs, STs and others. New Delhi: The Modi government’s controversial decision to split wage payments along caste lines under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been withdrawn and the earlier system of payment from a single account has been restored, ThePrint has learnt. The move made...
More »NREGA Sangharsh Morcha demands higher wages, more working days, employee insurance in letter to PM
-National Herald It has requested Union government to notify a wage rate of Rs 600 per day for NREGA workers and allocation of work for 150 days annually for each job card holding individual Flagging issues being faced by crores of MGNREGA workers, NREGA Sangharsh Morcha has requested the Union government to notify a wage rate of Rs 600 per day for NREGA workers and allocation of work for 150 days annually...
More »‘Delay in wage payment by Centre adding to NREGA workers’ woes’
-The Hindu As of August 10 this year, 34% transactions are still unpaid, says LibTech study Delay on the part of the Union Government in transfer of wages to workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005, has further compounded the woes of thousands of workers during these difficult pandemic times. The Centre is taking 26 days on an average to complete the wage transfer to the NREGA workers...
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