Payment will be made through ABPS only

Sources said states have been informed that payments will now be made only through ABPS. He said that if any state has any complaint, it will be resolved on a case-by-case basis. The 12 digit Aadhaar number is used as the financial address of the ABPS worker. For ABPS-enabled payments, a worker’s Aadhaar details are linked to his job card and Aadhaar is linked to the worker’s bank account.

About 14.28 crore active workers under MNREGA

According to the Aadhaar Demographic Verification Status Report on the website of the Union Rural Development Ministry, there are about 14.28 crore active workers under MNREGA as of January 1. So far, Aadhar numbers of 13.48 crore workers have been linked. Aadhaar verification of 12.90 crore workers has been done, about 12.49 crore workers have been converted to Aadhaar-based payment system.

This means that about 12.5 per cent of the active workers under MNREGA are still not ABPS enabled. When it comes to total workers, as per January 1 data, there are around 25.89 crore workers under MNREGA, of which 17.37 crore are in ABPS. This means that more than 32 percent workers are not eligible for ABPS.

Congress surrounded the central government

Congress on Monday cornered the Central Government on making Aadhaar based system mandatory for MNREGA payments. Said – Modi government should stop weaponizing technology, especially Aadhaar, to deprive the most vulnerable Indians of their social welfare benefits.

Party general secretary Jairam Ramesh said that by using ABPS for MNREGA wage payments, the Modi government has continued its destructive experiment with technology. He alleged that this is a dangerous New Year gift from the Prime Minister to deprive crores of extremely poor and marginalized Indians of earning a basic income.

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The thing to note is that there has been a decline in employment in rural areas this year. According to the report published in Economic Times, while giving information on this matter, a senior official has said that there has been an increase in the expenditure of funds in NREGA. In such a situation, additional funds have been released to meet the need. After this, the Central Government will take funds from the Government in the next session of Parliament.

Increased demand for employment under MNREGA

It is noteworthy that due to poor rains in this financial year, employment crisis has been seen in rural areas. In such a situation, a senior official had told the Economic Times that this year the government had allocated a budget of Rs 60,000 crore under MNREGA, which has been utilized up to 95 percent even before the winter session. In such a situation, in view of the increasing demand for MNREGA, the government has released an additional budget of Rs 10 thousand crores.

Government has approved additional budget of Rs 24,000 crore

It is noteworthy that this year due to poor monsoon in rural areas and gradual industrial improvement, generally less migration of workers towards cities has been seen. In such a situation, the demand for work under MNREGA has increased in rural areas. In such a situation, 95 percent of the decided budget was spent even before the winter session of Parliament.

In such a situation, in view of the shortage of funds, the Ministry of Rural Development has talked about provision of additional budget of Rs 28,000 crore in the fixed fund. Now the government has also released funds worth Rs 10,000 crore from this.

Budget cuts in FY24

It is worth noting that in the financial year 2024, the Central Government had made a big cut in the budget allocated under MNREGA, reducing it from Rs 88,000 crore to Rs 60,000 crore, although it had also announced that if needed. The government will make provision for more funds.

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