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Synopsis The number of person days of work generated under MGNREGA in January and February 2023, following the implementation of the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) app for attendance, has decreased in comparison to previous years. Data compiled by the civil society group NREGA Sangharsh Morcha revealed 34.59 crore person days were generated in 2023 while the figures were 53.07 crore, 56.94 crore, 47.75 crore and 47.86 crore for 2022, 2021 and 2020, and 2019 respectively. The workers are protesting the ABPS payment system’s mandatory implementation and poor network coverage in rural areas that hinders attendance marking. • Balaji's arrest: Oppn slams ED's actions • Cyclone Biparjoy: Over 30,000 evacuated • Senthil Balaji sent to judicial custody • Sensex up 85 pts, Nifty tops 18,750 • Internal war within BJP over K'taka poll debacle • 'I'm a victim of Congress' politics' • Watch: CM Stalin visits Senthil Balaji in hospital • Cyclone Biparjoy: Red alert in 6 Gujarat districts • Indictment is 'election interference': Trump • Fresh violence in Manipur; nine killed

From UPSC perspective, the following things are important : Prelims level : MGNREGS Mains level : Right to work The average days of employment provided per household under the What is the news? • As on January 20, the average days of employment provided per household is 42 days while it was 50 days in 2021-22, 52 days in 2020-21, 48 days in 2019-20 and 51 days in 2018-19. Why such unprecedented drop in employments? The program has been plagued by systemic problems that is disincentivising participation. • Choking of funds: This has led to suppression of work demand and delays in wage payments. • App for attendance: The introduction of unnecessary technical complexities like an app for attendance at worksites has caused more hardships for workers who will be more dissuaded going forward. • States dismal policies: With less than two-months for the financial year to close, there are at least nine States and union territories which have utilised less than 70% of projected person days. • Budgetary cuts: With low utilisation, financial outlay for the underperforming States is expected to further shrink in the upcoming financial year. What is MGNREGS? • The MGNREGS is a scheme under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of 2005. • This is labour law and social security measure that aims to guarantee the ‘ Right to Work’. • The act was first proposed in 1991by V. Narasimha Rao. What is so unique about it? • MGNREGS is unique in not only ensuring at least 100 d...

Every day since January 1, Kamalsay Kumar and Pankaj Khess, who work under the national rural employment guarantee scheme, enter the attendance data of workers into a newly-mandated online app – and hope for the best. Khess and Kumar live in the forested Remhala village of Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district. They are both “mates”, the first point of contact for labourers working in the employment guarantee scheme, which assures 100 days of work to every rural household in the country. Accurately recording attendance is key for workers to receive their daily wage of Rs 204. But the new National Mobile Monitoring Software app has made this an uphill task in villages like Remhala. Made up of nine hamlets spread over a hilly region, the village is bereft of a single bar of network. Many settlements are on hilltops, often with no motorable road. Since January 1, when the central government made it mandatory to use the app, Kumar and Khess have been keeping up an arduous daily routine. Around 8 am, Khess rides on his two-wheeler to a plateau of land just outside the village where phones are able to catch some cellular network. There, Khess downloads the muster roll, a record which shows the labourers due at the worksite under his charge for the day. He then heads back to the work site by 9 am and makes note of the presence of workers in a register. “Then, back at the plateau before the 11 am deadline, I feed in the data, hit submit, and hope that the data has indeed been uploaded c...