Mahatma Gandhi NREGA is a demand driven Scheme to provide guaranteed 100 days of work to the rural poor. last year the central government gave clear orders to all states to complete aadhar seeding for all job card holders under NREGA scheme.
The deadline to complete the same was 31St December. Now the The government released the latest data related to it
There are a total of 25.25 crore workers in the country, out of which just 14.32 crore (56.83%) are active workers. Again out of these total registered 14.32 crore Job Cards, there are 9.77 crore (68.22%) Job cards currently active.
The government states that Aadhaar seeding of beneficiary is a continuous process and is done as a de-duplication exercise to authenticate the genuine beneficiaries, to make the benefits of the social welfare schemes available only to the genuine beneficiaries. Out of the total 14.32 crore active workers, Aadhaar seeding of 14.08 crore (98.31%) active workers have already been completed.
Against these seeded Aadhaar, a total 13.76 crore Aadhaar have been authenticated and 87.52% active workers are now eligible for APBS.
NPCI data shows that there is higher success percentage to the extent of 99.55% or above where the Aadhaar is enabled for DBT. In case of Account based payment such success is about 98%.
What is APBS
APBS is Aadhaar Payment Bridge System, one of the unique payment systems implemented by NPCI, which uses Aadhaar number as a central key for electronically channelizing the Government benefits and subsidies in the Aadhaar Enabled Bank Accounts (AEBA) of the intended beneficiaries. The transfer of funds will take place in DBT mode.
Check NREGA Payment status
In the given below links you can check your job card and linked bank account details along with payment status
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