House panel moots uniform MGNREGS wages in all states | India News
Government sources, however, said uniformity of wages across states was not ‘practical’ NEW DELHI: Even as negligible MGNREGS wage increases have sparked outrage, a parliamentary committee has further roiled the issue of remuneration under the job scheme by demanding that it be uniform nationally as against the present system where it varies in states. Well-placed government sources, however, ruled out any tweak to the formula in either of the cases — raising annual wages or notifying state-wide wages based on change in Consumer Price Index (agricultural) there. “These issues were s...
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