PM asks for addressing delayed payments to NREGA workers

16 Jul 2012 Evaluate
The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh has expressed his dissatisfaction with the UPA’s most ambitious project, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREGA) that it is ‘not in good shape’. The PM urged the Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Montek Singh Ahluwalia to address the issue of delayed payment to workers under the programme at the earliest and to carry out simultaneous audits for rural development schemes.

Despite the hitches in the implementation of the scheme, the PM remained positive about the broader achievement of the scheme. He pointed out that nearly 5.50 crore families or about one in four rural households were given over 250 crore person-days of work under the scheme. This constitutes nearly 51% of workers from SC/ST families and 47% women, highlighting greater inclusiveness of the scheme, he added.

Further, he added that NREGA which had helped the rural India in coping with the frequent distress and natural disasters, could act as a ‘silver bullet’ for India’s rural renewal.

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