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It is to assess Budget benefits for SC/STs, Rural Development Secretary says.
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Women work at a site on the outskirts of Ajmer under the MGNREGA scheme. File
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It is to assess Budget benefits for SC/STs, Rural Development Secretary says.
The decision to split MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) wage payments by caste categories was done on the advice of the Finance Ministry in order to assess and highlight the benefits flowing from budgetary outlay towards Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Rural Development Secretary N.N. Sinha told
The Hindu on Thursday. He said this should not cause any delay in wage payments or any changes for beneficiaries if processes were put in place correctly, and added that there was no plan to focus MGNREGA only on districts with high SC and ST populations.
Experts say penetration of Covid into rural India may have also impacted the availability of workers at the worksite. “The second wave of Covid has impacted rural India more and hence not much economic activity on the ground as lockdowns were strictly imposed across the states,” said Himanshu, professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Centre tells States to split rural jobs scheme wages into separate categories for SCs, STs, others
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It will complicate payment system, may lead to a reduction in funding, say experts.
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It will complicate payment system, may lead to a reduction in funding, say experts. The Centre has asked the States to split wage payments under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme into separate categories for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and others from this financial year. Workers’ rights advocates said this will unnecessarily complicate the payment system, and expressed fears that it may lead to a reduction in scheme funding.
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