Lok Sabha Question No. 1098 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-13
Subject: Attendance through NMMS App under MGNREGS
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Kavitha Malothu, Gaddam Ranjith Reddy, Venkatesh Netha Borlakunta

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1098 ANSWERED ON 13/12/2022

## ATTENDANCE THROUGH NMMS APP UNDER MGNREGS

1098.   SHRIMATI KAVITHA MALOTHU: DR. G. RANJITH REDDY: SHRI VENKATESH NETHA BORLAKUNTA:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  introduced  attendance  of  the  Mahatma  Gandhi  National Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Scheme  (MGNREGS)  workers  through  National  Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) App and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the above App is not available in all recognized languages of the country and are available only in five languages;
- (c) whether  the  Government  is  aware  about  the  problems  being  faced  by  MGNREGS workers since most of them cannot read other than their mother tongue; and
- (d) if  so,  the  efforts  being  made  by  the  Government  to  make  available  other  recognized languages in NMMS App?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)

- (a):      To  ensure  more transparency  in  the  implementation  of  Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS) in the States/UTs, a provision for capturing of attendance at worksite through National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) App with geo-tagged  time stamped photographs of the worker in a day has been started on 21st May 2021, wherein muster rolls are issued for 20 or more workers. This increases citizen oversight of the programme besides potentially enabling faster processing of payments.
- (b)   The NMMS mobile app is available in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.
- (c)  &  (d):   All  States/UTs  are  using  NMMS  App  for  capturing  the  attendance  for  eligible worksites.  So  far,  no  specific  issues  related  non  use  of  NMMS  App  due  to  language  of  the NMMS App has been noticed by this Ministry.

Mates  are  encouraged  to  take  the  responsibility  of  capturing  the  attendance  of  the  workers through the NMMS App. The Ministry has been providing training to the States/UTs to ensure smooth  transitioning  to  NMMS  app  as  and  when  requested  by  the  States/UTs.  The  technical issues  being  faced  are  taken  up  with  NIC,  Rural  Development  on  real  time  basis.  The  new provisions/  suggestions  requested  by  the  States/UTs  are  being  incorporated.  All  the  issues concerning the NMMS application are reviewed and resolved from time to time.

Some important decisions taken as per request of State Governments are given below:

NMMS application has been modified to capture second photograph just after the 4 hours from the  uploading  of  attendance  and  first  photograph.  It  has  ease  out  the  specific  time  point requirement for capturing the attendance and photographs. The morning attendance along with the first  photograph can be captured in offline mode and to be uploaded once device comes in network.

In case of exceptional circumstances due to which attendance could not be uploaded, the District Programme Coordinator (DPC) has been authorized to upload the manual attendance.

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