Page 2 - Libtech India News Today

For the past five years India has shut down the internet more times than any other country affecting over 120 million people

Since many essential services are predicated on the Aadhar-based verification, unreliability of biometric technologies becomes a major issue.

India News: A study that analysed 31 million transactions for MGNREGS payments spread across 10 states found that there was no significant difference between Aadh.

The Union government has made the Aadhar-based payment system mandatory for all MGNREGA workers, but lakhs of workers are yet to be made eligible for it despite multiple deadline extensions.

Names are deleted without the knowledge of workers or following proper procedure, claim activists

Frequent internet shutdowns in India have a disproportionately negative impact on impoverished communities that rely on the governments social protection programs for sustenance, a new report released by Human Rights Watch and Internet Freedom Foundation said.

Workers contracted under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Telangana plan to stage state-wide protests against the new Aadhaar-based wage payment and app-based attendance systems.

The National Mobile Monitoring System application needs to be scrapped because it meets no objective, say experts. Technology must be appropriate for workers and not cause them more pain

Work demand dropped to 2.4 million in 2022-23 from 13.2 million 2020-21

 A study estimates that workers have lost income by 83%, compelling them to borrow money for survival