As an interim arrangement, the Union Rural Development Ministry has relaxed norms for Arunachal Pradesh in regard to payment of wages and non-wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Act.
After
the state government’s request, the ministry relaxed the norms for payment of
wages and non-wages under MGNREGA through bank and post office accounts to the
wage earners where outreach bank and postal service is inadequate, state RD
Commissioner Indra Mallo said in a release here on Wednesday.
“The
payment of wages and non-wages under MGNREGA to the job card holders can be
made in cash by considering constituting a payment committee (PC) at each gram
panchayat,” he said. The payment committee should comprise of gram panchayat
president and chairman, gram panchayat member of concerned villages, two women
self help group members wherever available, traditional tribal head gaon
burahs, minimum three MGNREGA workers, including a woman member of the
concerned gram panchayat.
Videography
of the cash payment proceedings should also be made, Mr. Mallo said.
The
district DC should constitute the payment committee, she said adding,
arrangement for cash payment to the job card holders is an interim arrangement
till proper banking and postal arrangement are established. - PTI
