Five months after the Union Government's order making it mandatory to capture attendance of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers through government mobile application-National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) at work sites where 20 or more workers are employed, at least three States — Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Assam — are pushing for making this universal, though majority of the States still have concerns about it.
As per the data for September put out by the Union Ministry for Rural Development, there are only eight States, including the above three, which have recorded 90% and above usage of the app. These include Assam (93.42%), Odisha (92%), Tamil Nadu (93%) along with Karnataka (92%), Kerala (91.5%), Tripura (91%), Uttarakhand (91%) and Puducherry (99%). In Puducherry, though the usage of the NMMS app is high, the quantum of worksites in September was just 774.
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