New Delhi, June 30
Bringing it on record, the government clarified in the Rajya Sabha that the wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) have not decreased in the past five years.
Responding to a query in the Upper House last week, Rural Development Minister Narendra Tomar Singh furnished data supporting the government’s version. The financial year average wage rate per day per person (in Rs ) are: 143.92 in 2014-15; 154.08 in 2015-16; 161.65 in 2016-17; 169.44 in 2017-18; and 179.12 in 2018-19.
All wages to workers are not paid through Aadhaar Based Payment System (ABPS). Those workers who do not have Aadhaar or are in the process of ABPS conversion are paid electronically through transfers into their banks/post office accounts.
The government is not spending more money on the material component than the labour component, he added. The government’s clarification is in the context of Opposition parties critiquing it during the parliamentary election for whittling down the scheme in their larger meta-narrative of its apathy to the rural India. — TNS
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