Key Points
e . Following sustained protests from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers, the Union government has decided to extend the deadline for workers to use the Aadhaar-based payment system for receiving wages by three months till June 30..
On March 31,as per the sources, the Union Rural Development Ministrys own data pointed out that the beneficiary accounts eligible for Aadhaar-based payments were only 80%..
One of the issues is regarding the Aadhaar-based payment system, which they call very cumbersome especially for workers who arent conversant with the banking system.For.
For the Aadhaar-based option to work, not only the workers must have job card and bank account be seeded with Aadhaar, the account has also to be connected to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)..
This connection, known as mapping can be very cumbersome, because it requires meeting stringent KYC requirements, resolving possible inconsistencies between the Aadhaar database and bank account,Jean Dreze, one of the key architects of the original scheme, had said at a press conferencein February...
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