“Cobweb delay MGNREGA payment must be cleared surgically’

New Delhi, Aug 12 : A standing committee in its report on the MGNREG Act observed that the bureaucratic tangle that surrounds the reasons that cause delays in payments must be surgically eliminatedThe panel of the Parliamentary committee on Rural Development observed that the prompt payment of wages as guaranteed by the MGNREG Act assumes paramount importance that acts as an additional attraction to the poor and marginalized segments of the society.

The panel in its report said that the release of the amount provided by the DoRD could be is a one step in the right direction, however the "need of the hour is to make sure that the promise of the payment of wages in 15 days as stipulated in the MGNREG Act should be complied with in spirit and letter and that not a single cent is left unpaid to the poor beneficiaries "The bureaucratic smog that surrounds the causes of delay needs to be surgically removed," it said.The Committee strongly endorses their suggestion to take more efficient and result-oriented steps to get away the dreadful condition of the delay in the payments of wages to beneficiaries of MGNREGA the report said.kvm/pgh .