Summary:
Several MGNREGS workers are not too keen on taking up work this season as they are not sure of getting the wages on time. Why would we want to work again, when wages of so many months are yet to be paid?,” asks Baby, an MGNREGS worker from Vamanapuram. more-inThe long wait for the wage arrears of work done over several months seems to have taken a toll on the unskilled workers engaged under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). Few optionsIn the rural areas, unskilled workers have few other options, if they do not get work under the employment guarantee scheme. According to Binu, who co-ordinates MGNREGS works in Nellanad grama panchayat, there is shortage of workers as well as shortage of works to give to unskilled workers..