Nuapada loved MGNREGA amid covid-19 lockdown what happened after that.
Nuapada loved MGNREGA amid COVID-19 lockdown; what happened next? Villagers who benefitted earlier shy away from jobs progamme as unpaid dues pile up since October 2020 By Ajit Panda Published: Tuesday 20 April 2021 Lockdown saviour MGNREGA losing appeal in Odisha’s Nuapada Workers are disenchanted with MGNREGA across Nuapada's villages due to non-payment of wages since October 2020. Photo: Moyna / CSE Workers are disenchanted with MGNREGA across Nuapada's villages due to non-payment of wages since October 2020. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared an India-wide lockdown March 24, 2020 millions of migrant families were forced to scamper back home. While the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was taking lives, what about livelihoods? That was the big question. A large part of the answer lay in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). A year later, this reporter travelled to Odisha’s Nuapada district to find out how India’s flagship jobs p...