(a)Whether it has come to the notice of the Government that the laborers
working under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act are getting
less amount of wages than fixed by the Government due to prevalent
corruption therein ;
(b)Whether the Government proposes to take any steps to save the laborers
working under it; and
(c) If so, the details thereof ?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT(SHRI CHANDRA SEKHAR SAHU)
(a) No, Sir.
(b)&(c): In accordance with Section 6(1) of National Rural Employment
Guarantee Act 2005, Central Government may, by notification, specify the
wage rate for the purposes of the Act provided that the wage rate by such
notification shall not be at a rate less than Rs. 60/- per day. The Central
Government has, however, not fixed any wage rate under the Act so far.
Section 6(2) of the Act, further provides that until such time a wage rate is
fixed by the Central Government in respect of any area in a State, the
minimum wages fixed by the State Government under Section 3 of the Minimum
Wages Act, 1948 for agricultural labour shall be considered as the wage rate
applicable to that area.All State Governments are paying wages to the workers
under the Act in accordance with the wages fixed by them in accordance with
the provisions of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948. State Governments have,
however, been asked to undertake comprehensive work, time and motion studies
for evolving norms for measurement of work and schedule of rates for the
purposes of the Act.