{"id":228685,"date":"2023-02-25T19:47:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T14:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=228685"},"modified":"2023-02-25T19:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T14:17:55","slug":"mgnregs-over-40-of-gram-panchayats-do-not-report-digital-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mgnregs-over-40-of-gram-panchayats-do-not-report-digital-attendance\/","title":{"rendered":"MGNREGS: Over 40% of gram panchayats do not report digital attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cMGNREGS: Over 40% of gram panchayats do not report digital attendance\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>The Hindu on 25th February 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Union Government had made it <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mandatory that the attendance for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers be captured through a mobile application, National Mobile Monitoring System(NMMS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, o<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ver 40% of gram panchayats have not reported digital attendance through the app.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Only community work under MGNREGS requires NMMS.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the National<\/b><b> Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) app?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Launched in: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2021 by Ministry of Rural Development<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To bring <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more transparency and ensure proper monitoring of the schemes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Features:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The App is applicable for the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA workers for all the States\/ Union Territories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It permits taking real-time attendance of workers at Mahatma Gandhi NREGA worksites along with geo-tagged photographs. This helps in increasing citizen oversight of the programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What are the issues with making NMMS App mandatory for MGNREGA workers?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poor internet connectivity, little access to smartphones, and glitches in the app have created a problem in the daily activities of the workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many workers have also complained that the process is very difficult, and they are illiterate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cMGNREGS: Over 40% of gram panchayats do not report digital attendance\u201d published in The Hindu on 25th February 2023 What is the News? Recently, the Union Government had made it mandatory that the attendance for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers be captured through&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mgnregs-over-40-of-gram-panchayats-do-not-report-digital-attendance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MGNREGS: Over 40% of gram panchayats do not report digital attendance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-228685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228685","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}