Workers who fled cities to return to their villages because of the coronavirus pandemic rely on the rural jobs scheme to earn. Work is coming their way, but money is not reaching them quite so easily.
A report by LibTech India, ‘Length of the Last Mile: Delays and Hurdles in NREGA wage payments,’ reveals there are many hassles that rural workers face in receiving payments.
Payments are sometimes inordinately delayed, get rejected by the bank at the time of transfer, are partial and even end up in the wrong accounts.
It is MGNREGA workers who have to. . .