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Kolkata, May 27 The Panchayat and Rural Development Ministry Department, West Bengal, in association with Pixel Informatics, plans to use mobile telephony to collect data of beneficiaries under the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme.
As a part of the pilot project, the Government has handed over 1,100 mobile handsets to members of Gram Panchayats and Panchayat Samity in a number of districts for collecting all available data on the rural beneficiaries, according to a press statement issued by Pixel.
Ever since the NREGS was introduced to ensure minimum 100 days employment to rural workers, its monitoring has come under strain largely due to inadequate data on daily attendance and wage disbursals given the hierarchical reporting structure filtering up from Gram Panchayats to the state headquarters.
This initiative would speed up the process of information collection and dissemination as the supervisors of NREGS working at rural fields would be entrusted with the job of collecting status of daily attendance and payment disbursal to wage earners to speed up information reaching the state headquarters, the release said.
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