Context
Union Ministry of Rural Development, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Panchayati Raj and Food Processing Industries launched National Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) app and Area officer monitoring App.
About the launched apps
- The National Mobile Monitoring Software NMMS App permits taking real time attendance of workers at Mahatma Gandhi NREGS worksites along with geotagged photograph.
- It will increase citizen oversight of the programme besides potentially enabling processing payments faster.
- Area Officer Monitoring App facilitates them to record their findings online along with time stamped and go-coordinate tagged photograph for all the schemes of Deptt of Rural Development- Mahatma Gandhi NREGS, PMAYG, PMGSY.
- This would also enable not only better record keeping of inspections by field and supervisory officials but also facilitate analysis of the findings for better programme implementation.
- These two Apps will be big steps towards bringing in transparency and effective monitoring of schemes.
Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act or MGNREGA
- Mahatma Gandhi Employment Guarantee Act 2005 is an Indian labour law and social security National measure that aims to guarantee the 'right to work'.
- It aims to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
- In its World Development Report 2014, the World Bank termed it a "stellar example of rural development"
Initiatives under MGNAREGA
- NeFMS: 99% wage payment directly into the bank account of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA workers by way of DBT through NeFMS.
- Geo-MGNREGA: a provision for geo-tagging of assets.
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