Context :
Ø Expand
MGNREGS to 150 days: House panel / HT / 01 Sept 2022
Extract :
A Parliamentary panel has recommended
extension of work allocation under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), India’s flagship job scheme, to 150 days per year, according to a
committee report.
The MGNREGS currently
guarantees 100 days
of wage employment to each person in a
year.
The panel also made a “strong appeal” to authorities to
change the index that decides wage revision for better wages under the programme.
In a report on August 3, the panel said the MGNREGS is the
“ last ray of hope for the poor rural masses in
the unprecedented challenging times” and sought a revamp of the scheme “in such a way that the number of guaranteed
days of work under MGNREGA be increased from
the existing 100 days to 150 days.”
While states are entitled to increase MGNREGS by 50 days,
the panel, led by Shiv Sena’s Prataprao Jadhav,
{ prataprao.jadhav@sansad.nic.in / jadhavprataprao25@gmail.com },
was of the “firm view that the mandatory
increase in number of guaranteed days should
be brought about by moving an amendment in the Act in order to make it applicable for the entire country, so that the
demand of needy beneficiaries may not hinge upon the arbitrariness of the State Governments.”
The panel also urged the rural development ministry to link MGNREGS wages to Consumer Price Index – Rural (CPI-R)
instead of Consumer Price Index – Agricultural Labour (CPI-AL).
The CPI-R, experts believe, can
help ensure higher annual hikes to MGNREGS workers as the index gives more
weightage to food items.
The ministry, however, informed the panel that after the
due consultation with the ministry of statistics and ministry of labour &
employment, it has been decided to continue with the existing index CPI-AL for
wage rate revision.
MY TAKE :
Ø MGNREGA
: Can it morph into UBI ? ……………………………………..[ 11 May 2020 ]
Extract :
The daily wages payable , must be the “ Minimum Wage “ at the start of
each Skill level grade and periodically revised upward, depending upon CPI
Number of “ Guaranteed
Days of Work Employment / year “ should be :
# Rural Areas ………………….. 300 days ( up from current 100 days
)
Class II towns ………………… 200 days
Class
I Cities…………………… 100 days
Dear Shri
Giriraj Singhji
( Minister in charge of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj /
Apart from RURAL poor, there
are millions of URBAN poor
They too are jobless and
starving !
I urge you to go beyond the recommendations of the House Panel and also
implement the other suggestions listed in my above-mentioned earlier e-mail of
11 May 2020
With regard,
Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 03 Sept 2022
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