Centre says 84% MGNREGA wages paid on time in 2017; activisits question

Activists question the process of calculation method

Although the Central government claims a big drop in the delay in payment of wages of rural job scheme workers in the first four months of 2017-18, civil society activists on Friday alleged that a big reason for the improved performance is the wrong process of calculating delays in contravention of the act.

According to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), wage delays and compensation for the delay has to be calculated till wages are deposited in the bank account of workers, however, activists alleged that the Centre in its master circular of 2017-18 has said that Management