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Data Point: 10 Lakh ‘fake’ MGNREGA Job Cards Deleted

December 6, 2023

Context: In the last two financial years – 2021-22 and 2022-23 under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA)  over 10 lakh fake mgnrega job cards have been deleted.

Mgnrega Job Cards Deletions: 2021-22 and 2022-23

  • In 2021-22, 3.06 lakh job cards were deleted in the NREGS due to reasons categorized as ‘fake mgnrega job cards.’
  • In the subsequent year, 7.43 lakh job cards were deleted during 2022-23.
  • State-wise Deletions: Fake Job Cards
    • Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest number of deleted fake job cards, with 67,937 in 2021-22 and a substantial increase to 2.96 lakh in 2022-23.
    • Madhya Pradesh followed closely, with 50,817 fake mgnrega job cards deleted in 2021-22 and 1.14 lakh in 2022-23.
    • West Bengal reported significantly lower figures, with only 388 fake mgnrega job cards deleted in 2021-22 and an increase to 5,263 in 2022-23.
    • Reasons for Deletion: Though the deletion and issuance of new job cards are routine practices, the primary reason behind these deletions is implementing the Aadhaar-based Payment System (ABPS),  according to the Economic and Political Weekly.
    • In January 2023, MoRD mandated using ABPS to process all wage payments in MGNREGA, starting from February 1, 2023.
Aadhaar-based Payment System (ABPS): According to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), ABPS is “a unique payment system which uses Aadhaar number as a central key for electronically channelising government subsidies and benefits in the Aadhaar-Enabled Bank Accounts (AEBA) of the beneficiaries”.

 

About MGNREGA:

  • MGNREGA Act was enacted in 2005 as a social welfare program by the Ministry of Rural Development.
  • Objective: To guarantee 100 days of employment in every financial year to adult members of any rural household willing to do public work-related unskilled manual work.

Key Features:

  • Legal Right to Work: For adult members of rural households, at least one-third of beneficiaries are women. 
  • Wage Provision: Wages must be paid according to the wages specified for agricultural laborers in the state under the  Minimum Wages Act,  1948.
  • Time-bound guarantee of work: Employment must be provided within 15 days of being demanded failing which an ‘unemployment allowance’ must be given.
  • Decentralized Planning: Gram sabhas must recommend the works that are to be undertaken and they must execute at least 50% of the works.  


News Source: The Indian Express

 

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