Dear Friend,
Just read your today’s article :
The Urban Unemployment Story
In this context, you may want to look up my following blogs :
MGNREGA : Can it morph into UBI ? ……………………………………[ 11 May 2020 ]
- Where I suggested :
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- SOLUTION :
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- Ø MGNREGA should be re-named, MGNRUGA ( Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Urban Employment Guarantee Act )
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- Ø Besides RURAL households, it should cover URBAN households as well
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- Ø Besides “ Unskilled Manual Work “, it must also cover “ Semi-skilled / Skilled “ work as well
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- Ø The daily wages payable , must be the “ Minimum Wage “ at the start of each Skill level grade and periodically revised upward, depending upon CPI
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- Ø Number of “ Guaranteed Days of Work Employment / year “ should be :
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- # Rural Areas ………………….. 300 days ( up from current 100 days )
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- # Urban Areas :
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- Class II towns ………………… 200 days
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- Class I Cities…………………… 100 days
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- Ø On MGNRUGA website , there will be provision for,
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- # Jobless persons to register ( providing full personal data / job locations preferred / Skill level /
- prior experience etc )
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- # Companies / Establishments to register , providing full details of vacancies
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- # Match-making / Allocation etc
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- Ø If an Urban establishment provides work to any of the REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED
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- referred by MGNRUGA web site, it will not be required to pay wages ( to those persons ), for
- periods mentioned above.
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- For them, the wages will get paid directly by the Ministry subsidizing , at rates prescribed under
- the Act ( DBT ) . Any wages paid in excess , will have to be borne by the establishment concerned
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- This “ Wage Subsidy “ will be available ONLY to those establishments, who install in their
- premises, Mobile-based Attendance System , as described at :
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- From BAD to MAD [ 01 June 2016 ]
- MAD goes to Mandi [ 02 Jan 2020 ]
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- HOW WILL THIS HELP ?
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- Ø This modification of Scheme will cover jobless persons, all over India – not only Rural India
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- Ø The scheme as it stands now, covers “ works “ related only to ,
- # Soil and Water Conservation
- # Ground Water Recharge
- # Irrigation
- # Drainage
- # Plantation
- # Land……. Etc
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- My suggestion will extend the scheme to cover urban offices / factories / shops etc , where millions have
- been rendered jobless due to lockdown
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- Ø Current rural schemes have to be monitored by govt officers / panchayat office-bearers, who may lack supervision skills and / or lack “ motivation “ to ensure that each MGNREGA worker puts in honest / hard / productive work, at the end of the day !
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- As against this, when organized / profit driven establishments ( in Urban setting ) are supervising such
- workers, producti
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- { Read : https://myblogepage.
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- Ø Because of this Wage Subsidy ( better name it CORONA EMPATHY – so as not to run foul of WTO ) , MSME will revive faster , with less worry for Cash Flow . Products will become cheaper
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- Ø By providing jobs and enabling people to earn their own living , there will be no need for Delhi-type “ doles “ – which are unsustainable in long run
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- Ø This ( scheme ) overcomes the major objections against UBI ( Universal Basic Income ), viz :
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- # How to decide whom ( defining “ poor “ is difficult ), to give UBI
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- # People will become too dependent on “ Sarkar Maa-Baap “ and become lazy / stop looking for work
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- Ø It is better than the Unemployment Allowance of USA ( now for 33 million persons, sitting at home )
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- Dear Shri Narendrabhai,
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- It is time to think about a PERMANENT SOLUTION to this problem of UN-EMPLOYMENT { even beyond COVID }
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- Please consider my suggestion
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- With regards,
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- Hemen Parekh
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