National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS)

Last updated on August 1st, 2025 Posted on February 25, 2023 by NEXT IAS Current Affairs Team 1871

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Recently Government made it mandatory that the attendance for MGNREGS workers will be captured through a mobile application, National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS)

About

The National Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) App was launched by the Ministry of Rural Development in 2021.
It aimed at bringing more transparency and ensuring proper monitoring of the schemes.
Significance:
- The NMMS App permits taking real time attendance of workers at Mahatma Gandhi NREGA worksites along with geo-tagged photographs.
- The app helps in increasing citizen oversight of the programme.
Issues:
- Poor internet connectivity, little access to smartphones and glitches in the app have created a problem functioning of programme. According to Ministry of Rural Development’s own statistics
  - Only 25.9% registered devices have been used to record the attendance .
  - 41.3% of the gram panchayats report no NMMS device usage.
- The workers are forced to buy a smartphone with their own wages with no extra support given by government.

MGNREGA

It is a poverty alleviation programme of the Government of India, which provides the legal Right to Work in exchange for money to the citizens of the country.
- On average, every day approx. 1.5 crore people work under it at almost 14 lakh sites.
- It aims to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
Funding: It is shared between the Centre and the States.

The Central Government bears 100 per cent of the cost of unskilled labour, 75 percent of the cost of semi-skilled and skilled labour, 75 percent of the cost of materials and 6 percent of the administrative costs.

Source: TH

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