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New Delhi: A new feature introduced by the Ministry of Rural Development to improve transparency in the online attendance system of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is posing problems for workers, as they are required to travel back daily to the spot where they started work initially to mark their attendance...
Under the geo-fencing (a virtual perimeter of an area) feature that was introduced last month in the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS), MGNREGS workers are required to mark their daily attendance from within a 10-metre radius of a spot at aworksite which was geo-tagged before commencement of the work or project.The workers have to be present at this particular spot, which has been geo-tagged in the NMMS application by officials, to mark their attendance before they begin work...
The new feature is now posing problems for workers, especially those involved in linear development projects such as plantation along roads, the repair and maintenance of canals or projects spread over a large area, to mark their attendance, senior officials with Kerala, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka governments told ThePrint...
A senior Karnataka government official told ThePrint, Workers involved in linear projects have to walk back, sometimes long distances, to the geo-tagged sites daily to mark their attendance..
Though the actual impact on the online attendance of workers is yet to be assessed by the four states ThePrint spoke to (Kerala, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka),state governments officials saidsome modifications have to be made to address issues faced in linear projects or network connectivity issues...
