(Shutterstock)The finance ministry has after four years of inaction expressed “in-principle” endorsement rather than clear support for a proposal that would have ensured sharper yearly wage increases under the rural job guarantee scheme. Wages under the rural job scheme for a particular year are calculated by comparing the CPI-AL for the preceding December with that for the December before that. “This year the rural development ministry has saved money on some other expenditures and can divert it to the rural job scheme. He said the rural development ministry had recently written to the Labour Bureau seeking details of how the CPI-AL would be updated. Earlier this month, the parliamentary standing committee on rural development had met rural development ministry officials and expressed “displeasure” at the poor wage revisions for the rural job scheme.

Source: The Telegraph November 17, 2019 22:52 UTC