MGNREGS demand-driven scheme, not possible to fix enrolment targets: Govt

The study besides said determination has been a nett deletion of 39 lakh workers, raising concerns astir wrongful deletions.

While the names of 84.8 lakh workers were deleted, lone 45.4 lakh workers were added nether the scheme.

“Since MGNREGA is simply a demand-driven strategy and existent FY is inactive ongoing, hence, it is not imaginable to hole an nonstop people of idiosyncratic days generation. However, the states/UTs tin nonstop proposals for labour budget revision arsenic per the locally felt needs,” the ministry said successful a statement.

“It whitethorn beryllium noted that the full idiosyncratic days generated betwixt FY 2006-07 to FY 2013-14 were 1,660 crore, whereas the full idiosyncratic days betwixt FY 2014-15 to FY 2024-25 has been 2,923 crore” it added.

The Libtech study said employment opportunities nether the strategy person dropped importantly compared to the erstwhile year, from 184 crore to 154 crore person-days.

It besides said 27.4 per cent of each the workers, oregon 6.7 crore people, are ineligible for receiving wages done the Aadhaar-Based Payment System (ABPS).

On nonstop payment transportation (DBT) and Aadhaar seeding, the ministry said ABPS conversion is simply a large betterment process wherever benefits are credited straight into the slope accounts based connected the Aadhaar of the workers nether the MGNREGS.

“As connected 26.10.2024, Aadhaar seeding has been done for 13.1 crore progressive workers, which is 99.3 per cent of full progressive workers (13.18 crore),” the ministry said.

“It is simply a fallacious statement that workers’ request for enactment is not registered if their accounts are not ABPS-enabled and that their wages stay unpaid due to the fact that of this reason. In lawsuit of non-eligible workers, whose ABPS is inactive pending, states/UTs person been requested to sensitise each banks to guarantee timely seeding of Aadhaar numbers of MGNREGS beneficiaries into NPCI mapper,” it added.

The ministry said if immoderate transaction returns from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) oregon a slope with immoderate valid crushed for rejection nether the ABPS, past that transaction tin beryllium regenerated done the National Automated Clearing House (NACH) outgo mode.

“Therefore, determination already exists an alternate solution astatine NREGASoft successful the signifier of NACH outgo mode (i.e relationship based) for the regeneration of failed transactions nether ABPS. States/UTs person been continuously sensitised regarding this,” the ministry said.

On deletion of occupation cards, it said occupation paper verification is simply a continuous process nether the MGNREGS and the workout is conducted by the states and Union territories with the assistance of the Aadhaar fig arsenic a instrumentality of de-duplication.

“Job cards tin beryllium cancelled/deleted, aft owed verification, lone if it is simply a fake occupation paper (incorrect occupation card)/duplicate occupation card/household not consenting to work/family shifted from gram panchayat permanently/single idiosyncratic successful occupation paper and that idiosyncratic has expired,” the ministry said.

It said according to NREGASoft, during the fiscal twelvemonth 2023-24, the full fig of occupation cards deleted by the states was 1.02 crore, whereas successful the existent FY 2024-25, arsenic connected October 26, the fig was 32.28 lakh.

The ministry besides rejected the statement that MGNREGS enactment is not undertaken successful villages wherever the mates (frontline supervisors) bash not person smartphones that enactment the NMMS app.

“In lawsuit of exceptional circumstances owed to which attendance could not beryllium uploaded, the District Programme Coordinator (DPC) has been authorised to o.k. the manual attendance. In FY 2024-25, attendance for 20.35 lakh worksites (95.66 per cent) has been captured and uploaded connected the portal,” the ministry said.

It besides said the fund estimation for the strategy has been connected an expanding trend. During FY 2013-14, the fund allocation was Rs 33,000 crore astatine the BE stage, which is Rs 86,000 crore during FY 2024-25 — the highest since the scheme’s inception. Further, it is stated that successful FY 2024-25, the minimum mean notified wage complaint has accrued by 7 per cent.