The Federal (India) writes in a piece that “workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) are now required to mark attendance twice a day with onsite, geo-tagged photos through the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) app.
Sudha Narayanan a researcher at IFPRI, has evaluated MGNREGA through studies and surveys since it was nationally rolled out in April 2008. She thinks the app is a “disaster” because it denies wages for work done if the photos are not uploaded, which can happen because of poor connectivity, a common problem in rural, and especially tribal, areas.
Read more of her comments in the article.