Tag: MGNREGA
MGNREGA Job Cards not been issued
The absence of MGNREGA Job Card forces laborers to work on lower wages for longer hours in Kaushambhi, Uttar Pradesh. Job Cards can be issued to BPL families in rural areas so that they can get 100 days of work in or around their village itself. 15 people have approached...
IMPACT: MGNREGA workers received dues after 6 months
9 people hadn’t been paid for 100 days of work done under MGNREGA. 6 months later, they finally received their dues – with the help of a video that community correspondent Navita Devi made on this issue. She screened this video to mobilize the community and then to the Panchayat...
No MGNREGA jobs for women in Bhoyar, UP
“Women don’t have the opportunity to earn a living doing men’s work.” “When I ask for work they tell me that I cannot do those jobs.” “If we do not earn then how are we expected to make a living.” Under the MGNREGA scheme provision has been made for 100...
MNREGA: 80 labourers, 20 days of work, no payment
Our VV-PACS Community Correspondent, Navita Devi, reports from Ahimachak village, in Bagicha Tola of Katihar district in Bihar, on how the village’s labourers are still awaiting compensation under M.N.R.E.G.A eight months after completion of the work allotted to them. Spokespersons for the affected community say that such irregularities are just...
MGNREGA Aiding Migration
As per provisions of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, each registered worker is ensured a minimum 100 days of work in a year and full payment of their wages at the end of the work. The projects include anything from laying a road to digging a well....
Guaranteeing Employment
Community correspondent Krupakar reports the story of a Sadashiv Thakrey who has not been given a MGNREGA job card due to which he along with many others who are unemployed are suffering. In Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, lives Sadashiv Thakrey. He applied for a job card under the Mahatma Gandhi...
Unpaid Wages
Central government has insisted that MGNREGA wages be paid exclusively through savings accounts opened for workers in nearby banks and post offices as a solution to corruption in payments. But the problem persists; VV-PACS Community Correspondent Satyendra from Mau district of Uttar Pradesh gives us a reality check into the...