Roundtable flags ‘flaws’ in implementation of MGNREGS
The Hindu
‘Only 20% of the job card holders got 100 days of work’
The implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is mostly flawed and only 20% of the job card holders could get 100 days of work and that too the payments that are supposed to be paid within 15 days have been pending for more than six months now, observed speakers at a roundtable on the implementation and outcome of the 15 years of implementation of the scheme in Anantapur on Sunday.
Participating in the programme, A.P. Vyavasaya Karmika Sangham president Dadala Subba Rao said that the government needed to pay a penalty of 0.5% interest per month for the delayed period if wages were due beyond 15 days.
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