Extract :
Rajasthan Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot, while presenting State’s Budget for Financial Year 2022-23, proposed a
new scheme for guaranteed employment for urban
households.
“While MGNREGA assisted
people in rural areas, there is no
such scheme for street vendors and those working at dhabas and restaurants
in urban areas,” he said.
Under
the scheme, employment will be provided for up to a hundred days in a year
The State government is yet to come out with a blue
print of the new scheme, but there will be assured number of jobs
for urban households. Also, the
scheme will be based on a legal mechanism that will provide certain number
of job days with wage to be decided soon.
Initial information suggest that the new scheme
is based on MGNREGA. The
mandate of the MGNREGA is to provide at least 100
days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual
work.
Considering the situation of employment in urban areas
especially after Covid-19, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour in
its 25 th report
titled :
‘Impact of Covid-19 on Rising Unemployment and Loss of Jobs/ Livelihoods in Organised and Unorganised Sectors’
mentioned
that unlike employment generation programmes in rural areas, the plight
of urban poor has
not got much attention of the Government.
The committee felt that building schools, hospitals, water
works, connecting internal roads along
with reforestation, soil reclamation etc. are some projects / programmes which
could generate substantial employment in the urban areas.
Moreover,
there is an imperative
need for putting in place an Employment Guarantee Programme for the urban workforce in line with MGNREGA,
the committee recommended.
One of the basic concerns in identification
of unemployed youth in urban area is different than rural area.
Secondly, the issue is about the kind
of job to be provided under the scheme will be totally different and
will need more skilled workforce.
MY
TAKE :
Thank You, Shri Ashok Gehlotji ,
For thinking about the plight of URBAN POOR – and for announcing MGNRUGA
As far as the matter of its BLUEPRINT is concerned, please
consider suggestions in my following e-mail :
MGNREGA
: Can it morph into UBI ? ………………………..[ 11 May 2020 ]
Extract :
MGNREGA should be
re-named, MGNRUGA(Mahatma
Gandhi National Rural Urban Employment
Guarantee Act )
Ø Besides
RURAL households, it should cover URBAN
households as well
Ø Besides “ Unskilled Manual Work “, it must also cover “ Semi-skilled / Skilled “
work as well
Ø The daily wages payable , must be the “ Minimum Wage “ at the start of each
Skill level grade and
Ø Number of “ Guaranteed Days of
Work Employment / year “ should be :
# Rural Areas ……………………. 300
days ( up from current 100 days )
# Urban Areas :
Class II towns ………………… 200 days
Class I Cities…………………… 100 days
Ø On MGNRUGA website , there will be provision for,
# Jobless persons to register ( providing full personal data / job locations
preferred / Skill level /
# Companies / Establishments to
register , providing full details of vacancies
# Match-making / Allocation etc
Ø If an Urban establishment provides work to any of the REGISTERED
UNEMPLOYED
wages ( to those persons ), for
For them, the wages will get paid directly by the Ministry subsidizing , at
rates prescribed under
Any wages paid in excess , will have to be borne by the establishment
concerned
This “ Wage Subsidy “ will be available ONLY to those establishments, who
install in their premises, Mobile-based Attendance System , as described at :
From BAD to MAD [ 01 June 2016 ]
MAD goes to
Mandi [ 02 Jan 2020 ]
HOW WILL THIS HELP ?
Ø This modification of Scheme
will cover jobless persons, all
over India – not only
Rural India
Ø The MGNREGA scheme as it stands now, covers “ works “ related only to ,
# Soil
and Water Conservation
# Ground
Water Recharge
# Irrigation
# Drainage
# Plantation
# Land…….
Etc
My suggestion will extend the scheme to cover urban offices / factories /
shops etc, where millions have
Ø Current rural schemes have to be monitored by govt officers / panchayat
office-bearers, who may lack
to ensure that each MGNREGA worker puts in honest / hard / productive
work, at the end of the day !
As against this, when organized / profit driven establishments ( in Urban
setting
) are supervising such
Generation “, will be very high !
{ Read :
https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2017/11/discovering-obvious.html }
Ø Because of this Wage Subsidy ( better name it CORONA EMPATHY – so as
not to run foul of WTO ) ,
Cash Flow . Products will become cheaper
Ø By providing jobs and enabling people to earn their own living , there
will be no need for Delhi-type
run
Ø This ( scheme ) overcomes the major objections against UBI ( Universal
Basic Income ), viz :
# How to decide whom ( defining “ poor “ is difficult ), to give UBI
# People will become too dependent on “ Sarkar Maa-Baap “ and become
lazy / stop looking for work
Ø It is better than the Unemployment Allowance of USA ( now for 33 million
persons,
sitting at home )
With Regards,
Hemen Parekh
/ hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 03
March 2022
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