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New Delhi: Over 1.78 crore of 14.32 crore active workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) have been rendered ineligible to seek jobs following the Centres decision to make the Aadhaar-Based Payment System (ABPS) mandatory for payment of wages from 1 January...
According to information available on the rural development ministrys MGNREGS portal on 1 January, 1.78 crore active workers are yet to get their ABPS linkage process complete...
Denying the allegations, the rural development ministry (without naming Jairam Ramesh) said in its statement: Since, April 2022 till date, about 2.85 crore job cards have been deleted by following the due process by the states...
A job card can be deleted in case it is a fake job card (incorrect job card)/duplicate job card/household not willing to work/family shifted from gram panchayat permanently/single person on job card and that person is expired, the ministry said.. With the ABPS mandatory now, there are several states where a large number of active workers under the MGNREGS have become ineligible to seek work under the scheme...
According to information available on the MGNREGS portal, Nagaland (20.6 percent), Meghalaya (21.5 percent) and Assam (48.1 percent) have less than 50 percent of active workers eligible for ABPS payments...
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