MP moots e-Payment for NREGS workers
Avnish Jolly
http://igovernment.in/site/mp-moots-e-payment-nregs-workers-37153
The move is aimed at doing away with long queues of labourers at post
offices and banks for getting their payments
Published on 03/17/2010 - 11:31:17 AM
By Suresh K Tiwary
New Delhi: The Shivpuri district administration in Madhya Pradesh has
planned to introduce biometric machines on the lines of Automated
Teller Machines (ATMs) for labourers to get their wages under the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).
The move is aimed at doing away with long queues of labourers at post
offices and banks for getting their payments.
"Biometric machines are being installed for the first time in
Shivpuri. Job cards will be prepared by taking thumb impressions and
recording voices of beneficiaries,'' a project official said.
The machine will display thumb impression and provide information
about voice of a worker on inserting a job card. This will be matched
with the thumb impression and voice of user for delivering cash.
The Biometric machine system will be first introduced in Budha Donar
and Enevara villages and replicated at other places in about three
months. One biometric machine each will be installed for a group of
5.5 panchayats. There are a total of 615 panchayats in this district.
Alpan Sinha
It is a good step towards making the life of labourers hasslefree and
making the system more transparent and user ( Labourer) friendly.This
shall be replicated in other areas too.
regards,
Alpan Kumar sinha
Program Officer
CEDPA,Jharkhand Regional Office,Ranchi
On Mar 17, 8:25 pm, Avnish Jolly <avnishjo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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