Kohima, September 7 (MExN): Along with rest of the Country, Nagaland will start implementing Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) under MGNREGA beginning from the current financial year 2017.
Wages of the MGNREGA workers will be directly credited to the individual accounts of Job card holders who have actually done the works on the basis of Rs.177 per day as daily wage through National Electronic Fund Management System (NeFMS)–Public Financial Management System (PFMS), a press release from Kelei Zeliang, IAS, Secretary, RD & Commissioner MGNREGA informed.
Under this system, every Job card holder must have a Bank Account duly linked with Aadhaar and unlike the present practice, where wages of MGNREGA workers are paid by cash through the VDBs, no cash payment will be possible in the new system.
In this system, if any Job card holder needs employment, he or she must demand for work from their respective BDOs, who have been designated as PO MGNREGA. Every job seeker will be given employment within 15 days, the release informed.
On being provided employment and measurement of work taken thereof, muster rolls will be filled and uploaded in the NREGA-Soft MIS. The concerned PO will prepare bills, digitally sign them and generate Fund Transfer Order (FTO). Once FTO is generated, it will directly go to the Program Division of the Ministry of Rural Development (New Delhi) who will sanction and transfer wage amount straight to the workers account through PFMS. In any case no person-days will be allowed to generate in the MIS unless the job card holders does the work.
This, the Commissioner MGNREGA stated, will ensure transparency and check corruption at all levels.
In view of the above, all MGNREGA workers both under bank covered Blocks and unbanked Blocks in the State have been directed to open their Bank Accounts immediately.
The Commissioner MGNREGA has also directed all the BDOs and Junior Engineers/SOs to remain in their respective station and assist the Job card holders.
Presently 46,894 active MGNREGA workers have opened their bank accounts linked with Aadhar and are ready for DBT. A total of 1.79 lakh MGNREGA workers have been verified with Aadhar and being processed for opening Bank Account. Currently there are 4.25 lakh active job cards with 5.82 lakh active MGNREGA workers in the state.
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