{"id":220299,"date":"2022-12-29T20:42:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=220299"},"modified":"2022-12-29T20:42:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:12:48","slug":"laboured-wages-any-delay-in-funds-to-be-paid-to-states-for-mgnregs-payments-is-unethical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/laboured-wages-any-delay-in-funds-to-be-paid-to-states-for-mgnregs-payments-is-unethical\/","title":{"rendered":"Laboured wages – Any delay in funds to be paid to States for MGNREGS payments is unethical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article \u201cLaboured wages – Any delay in funds to be paid to States for MGNREGS payments is unethical\u201d<\/strong> published in The Hindu<\/strong> on 29th December 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About wage delay in MGNREGS.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Recently there has been a debate in Parliament regarding withholding funds for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in West Bengal.<\/p>\n

About MGNREGS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Read here: MGNREGA<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are there is a wage delay in MGNREGS?<\/h5>\n

According to an NPO, almost \u20b92,744 crore was still due to workers for work done since December 26, 2021. This is contradictory to Section 3 of the NREG Act. The wage delays have resulted in a drop in the number of households working under the scheme.<\/p>\n

The wage delay happened due to a)<\/strong> A delay in funds disbursal from the centre to the States due to procedural delays and an overhauling of the Public Financial Management System<\/a> of the Finance Ministry, and b)<\/strong> Non-compliance with the directives of the Central government by states and fund misuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: MGNREGA: Issues and Significance \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What should be done to reduce wage delay in MGNREGS?<\/h5>\n

-The Union government should set aside adequate funds<\/strong> at the beginning of the financial year.<\/p>\n

-The government should emphasise on reducing the misuse of funds by using technocratic approaches.<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: Recently, the government has introduced digital capture of MGNREGS attendance mandatory at the work sites.<\/em><\/p>\n

A scheme such as MGNREGS needs to evolve while keeping its core idea of a demand-driven work allocation intact. Treating it as a burden will only hurt genuine beneficiaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cLaboured wages – Any delay in funds to be paid to States for MGNREGS payments is unethical\u201d published in The Hindu on 29th December 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these… Continue reading Laboured wages – Any delay in funds to be paid to States for MGNREGS payments is unethical<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-220299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704942253},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}