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Khalid Siddig

Khalid Siddig is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit and Program Leader for the Sudan Strategy Support Program. He is an agricultural economist with a focus on examining the impacts of potential shocks and the allocation of resources on economic growth, environmental sustainability, and income distribution through the lens of economywide and micro-level tools. 

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MGNREGA attendance app a govt ploy to discourage workers, contain expenses? (The Federal) 

April 17, 2023


The Federal (India) writes in a piece that “workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) are now required to mark attendance twice a day with onsite, geo-tagged photos through the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) app. 

Sudha Narayanan a researcher at IFPRI, has evaluated MGNREGA through studies and surveys since it was nationally rolled out in April 2008. She thinks the app is a “disaster” because it denies wages for work done if the photos are not uploaded, which can happen because of poor connectivity, a common problem in rural, and especially tribal, areas. 

Read more of her comments in the article

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