Glitches hamper on-line attendance beneath MGNREGS

Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Over six months after it was launched to usher in transparency and guarantee correct monitoring of MGNREGS, functioning of the National Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) in Odisha continues to be patchy at the same time as its protection within the state has been over 90 per cent. Blame it on poor connectivity and technical glitches.

Use of NMMS – an app-based attendance system (each cellular and internet) for MGNREGA employees designed to root out pretend employees and use of machines – was made obligatory by the Centre from January 1, 2023.

The Ministry of Rural Development had requested states to take time-stamped attendance of employees via the app – one within the morning and one other in night together with geo-tagged pictures of employees each day – six days every week. It is obligatory for all worksites the place muster rolls are issued for 20 or extra beneficiaries.

As per the ministry’s statistics, of the 6,794 gram panchayats within the state, NMMS is being applied in 6,655. The variety of eligible worksites within the panchayats are 19,564 and NMMS registration has been achieved in 18,915.

However, of the 31,436 mates who’ve registered for NMMS, as on date, solely 14,089 mates are utilizing it, which is 44 per cent. And 12,118 GRS are performing the duty of the 27,948 who’ve registered.
At the grassroots the place web connectivity is a matter, the app fails to document attendance appropriately.

The mates additionally stated they invariably fail to add the second {photograph}. Till June 15, the overall variety of group MGNREGS works achieved are 63,119. However, only one.26 lakh images have been clicked in each morning and night throughout the interval whereas the variety of images captured solely within the morning is 39 lakh.

“The app crashes and does not take an upgrade. To reinstall it, we have to travel to GRS offices. During peak hours, uploading pictures is almost impossible.We travel to a place where we can access internet connectivity to upload the picture,” stated a mate Sarat Das at Birighat gram panchayat in Khariar block of Nuapada.

MGNREGS activist Sameet Panda stated the problems are manifold within the new train. “Although a second photograph is mandatory, it is not being uploaded in 99 per cent of the worksites and there is nobody to check any of the photographs which defeats the purpose of this digital attendance system. The app does not verify the person in the photograph is the actual worker or not,” he stated.

A senior official of Panchayati Raj division stated the division has written to the Ministry of Rural Development relating to the issues of connectivity, glitches within the app and non-feasibility of two time-stamped photos.

BHUBANESWAR: Over six months after it was launched to usher in transparency and guarantee correct monitoring of MGNREGS, functioning of the National Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) in Odisha continues to be patchy at the same time as its protection within the state has been over 90 per cent. Blame it on poor connectivity and technical glitches.

Use of NMMS – an app-based attendance system (each cellular and internet) for MGNREGA employees designed to root out pretend employees and use of machines – was made obligatory by the Centre from January 1, 2023.

The Ministry of Rural Development had requested states to take time-stamped attendance of employees via the app – one within the morning and one other in night together with geo-tagged pictures of employees each day – six days every week. It is obligatory for all worksites the place muster rolls are issued for 20 or extra beneficiaries.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

As per the ministry’s statistics, of the 6,794 gram panchayats within the state, NMMS is being applied in 6,655. The variety of eligible worksites within the panchayats are 19,564 and NMMS registration has been achieved in 18,915.

However, of the 31,436 mates who’ve registered for NMMS, as on date, solely 14,089 mates are utilizing it, which is 44 per cent. And 12,118 GRS are performing the duty of the 27,948 who’ve registered.
At the grassroots the place web connectivity is a matter, the app fails to document attendance appropriately.

The mates additionally stated they invariably fail to add the second {photograph}. Till June 15, the overall variety of group MGNREGS works achieved are 63,119. However, only one.26 lakh images have been clicked in each morning and night throughout the interval whereas the variety of images captured solely within the morning is 39 lakh.

“The app crashes and does not take an upgrade. To reinstall it, we have to travel to GRS offices. During peak hours, uploading pictures is almost impossible.We travel to a place where we can access internet connectivity to upload the picture,” stated a mate Sarat Das at Birighat gram panchayat in Khariar block of Nuapada.

MGNREGS activist Sameet Panda stated the problems are manifold within the new train. “Although a second photograph is mandatory, it is not being uploaded in 99 per cent of the worksites and there is nobody to check any of the photographs which defeats the purpose of this digital attendance system. The app does not verify the person in the photograph is the actual worker or not,” he stated.

A senior official of Panchayati Raj division stated the division has written to the Ministry of Rural Development relating to the issues of connectivity, glitches within the app and non-feasibility of two time-stamped photos.