Chaos at MNREGS job sites, as women ‘benched’ due to failure of facial/iris scan

Chaos began on Monday, this week, after the new Union government rules for mandatory facial/iris scan for attendance in the VB GRAM G (formerly MNREGS) muster roll came to be enforced in all NREGS job sites.. This entailed the job facilitator on the site attempting to scan the face and iris of the worker, failing 15 out of 20 times, costing the women who were rejected their work day and wages.

Women grouped into clusters of 10s and 20s depending on the varying workforce strength were disallowed to work, simply because a new app did not recognise them, even though some of them have been working for years now.