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New Delhi: Amid criticism over low rate of hike in MGNREGS wages, sources on Friday said the increase was calculated on the basis of Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labour, which rose by around 7.7 per cent since last year..
The Rural Development Ministry had notified new wage rates under the MGNREGS on Wednesday, with hikes ranging between four and 10 per cent for different states, and an overall national average of around seven per cent...
Sources from the ministry said the central government has indexed the wage rate under the MGNREGS with the Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labour (CPI-AL) to compensate the workers against inflation...
Against the backdrop of concerns raised over the low hike in wages for MGNREGA workers in West Bengal by leaders of ruling Trinamool Congress, the source said that the hike of 5.7 per cent for the state was higher than many others...
"The wage rate under MGNREGA is indexed with CPI-AL and is a transparent and rational method of notifying wage rates every year," the source said.. TMC MP Saket Gokhale had on Thursday called the 5.7 per cent hike in wages for MGNREGA workers in the state "a brazen display of the BJP's hate for West Bengal."..
