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- Recently Government made it mandatory that the attendance for MGNREGS workers will be captured through a mobile application, National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS)
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- The National Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) App was launched by the Ministry of Rural Development in 2021.
- It aimed at bringing more transparency and ensuring proper monitoring of the schemes.
- Significance:
- The NMMS App permits taking real time attendance of workers at Mahatma Gandhi NREGA worksites along with geo-tagged photographs.
- The app helps in increasing citizen oversight of the programme.
- Issues:
- Poor internet connectivity, little access to smartphones and glitches in the app have created a problem functioning of programme. According to Ministry of Rural Development’s own statistics
- Only 25.9% registered devices have been used to record the attendance .
- 41.3% of the gram panchayats report no NMMS device usage.
- The workers are forced to buy a smartphone with their own wages with no extra support given by government.
- Poor internet connectivity, little access to smartphones and glitches in the app have created a problem functioning of programme. According to Ministry of Rural Development’s own statistics
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Source: TH
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