The Peoples’ Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG) has opposed the rural development ministry’s May 13 order discontinuing manual attendance at Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme worksites with more than 20 workers and replacing it with the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) app. instead of ensuring time-bound action on social audit findings (as is evidenced by the fact that action has not been taken in most of the cases arising from social audits conducted in the last financial year), the ministry is resorting to the use of ‘apps’ in the name of “increasing citizen oversight”. there is no way a mate can check if the attendance entered by him/her is correct, the PAEG wrote that they can make the entries “again and again” but won’t get to see what has finally been uploaded because of which they cannot show it to the workers. Since the app is linked to a SIM card, the mate cannot log in from a different phone with his/her mate ID.
— source newsclick.in | 21 Jun 2022