TNPSC Thervupettagam

Aadhaar-based payment system for MGNREGS

January 6 , 2024 196 days 276 0
  • It is a method of disbursing payments to MGNREGA workers using their unique 12-digit Aadhaar number as their financial address.
  • The Workers will get exemption on a case-to-case basis from the Aadhaar-based payment system of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
  • 34.8% of the registered workers and 12.7% of active workers remain ineligible for this mandatory payment method.
  • Total number of registered job cards is 14.32 crore, out of which just 9.77 crore (68.22%) is active job cards.
  • There is a total of 25.25 crore workers, out of which just 14.32 crore (56.83%) are active workers.
  • Since April 2022 to till date, about 2.85 crore job cards have been deleted by following the due process by the states.

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