Parliament Question: Attendance through NMMS

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4345 ANSWERED ON 19/08/2025 ATTENDANCE THROUGH NMMS

4345. Shri Sudama Prasad:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

(a) whether the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) used to capture attendance of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme MGNREGA workers misused and manipulated;

(b) the details of loss to the exchequer due to the misuse and manipulation of NMMS App;

(c) whether the Government has any plan to discontinue NMMS App;

(d) the details of the budget allotted and released for social audit in 2024-25 and 2025-26, State-wise; and

(e) the details and number of States got social audit done during 2021-22? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN)

(a)to (c): To ensure transparency and accountability in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS), the Ministry has decided that States/UTs shall ensure capturing of attendance at the worksite through National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) App with two-time stamped, geo-tagged photographs of the workers in a day for all the works (except Individual Beneficiary Work) through NMMS w.e.f. 1st January, 2023.

In order to avoid any inconvenience to the workers due to NMMS, provision has been made, that in case if any worksite is not located in network covered area or attendance could not be uploaded due to any other network issue then attendance can be captured in offline mode and can be uploaded once the device Page 1 of 4comes into network area. In case of exceptional circumstances owing to which attendance could not be uploaded, the provision for exemption at district level by District Program Coordinator also exists, which has since been decentralized to the Block level.

During the current financial year 2025-26 (as on 13.08.2025), 95% attendance has been marked through National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) under the Scheme.

It is also submitted that any issue faced by States/UTs is taken up with Ministry on a real-time basis which in turn makes efforts to resolve the same in a time bound manner. Various enhancements are continuously incorporated in the system to make it more robust, based on the feedback and suggestions given by States and other stakeholders, such as eye blink and head count facility, Mate-id mapping, verification of photographs at various levels etc.

The implementation of the NMMS application has significantly improved the attendance management system and the overall efficiency of the process. NMMS application also helps in timely payment of wages as wage lists and FTOs can be generated on the same day on which the attendance has been captured, this process took more time earlier in case of manual attendance system.

(d): State/UT-wise fund released for Social Audit Unit in the last financial year 2024-25 and the current financial year 2025-26 (as on

12.08.2025) is given at Annexure-I.

(e): State/UTs-wise details of Social Audits conducted under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS in FY 2021-22 is given at Annexure-II. ***** Page 2 of 4Annexure-I Annexure referred to in reply to part (d) of LokSabhaUnstarred Question No. 4345 dated 19.08.2025.

State/UT-wise fund released for Social Audit Unit in last financial year 2024- 25 and current financial year 2025-26 (as on 12.08.2025).

Funds released (Rs. in lakh) States/UTs 2025-26 (As on 2024-25 Sl. No. 12.08.2025) 1 Andhra Pradesh 1838.23 - 2 Arunachal Pradesh 138.75 - 3 Assam 296.16 - 4 Bihar 350.00 - 5 Chhattisgarh 1168.20 - 6 Gujarat* - - 7 Goa# - - 8 Haryana 194.54 77.57 9 Himachal Pradesh 448.51 168.11 10 Jammu & Kashmir 130.62 - 11 Jharkhand 422.54 389.61 12 Karnataka 1270.05 766.29 13 Kerala 1194.85 - 14 Madhya Pradesh 3090.99 759.71 15 Maharashtra 1349.40 - 16 Manipur 158.59 - 17 Meghalaya 263.87 158.4 18 Mizoram 204.84 71.67 19 Nagaland 190.21 48.56 20 Odisha 1705.97 - 21 Punjab 320.30 - 22 Rajasthan 938.18 1141.41 23 Sikkim 60.62 - 24 Tamil Nadu 3269.50 989.91 25 Telangana 1784.80 514.39 26 Tripura 223.38 129.49 27 Uttar Pradesh 2200.00 1239.85 28 Uttarakhand 148.49 76.82 29 West Bengal@ - - *Gujarat - Complete proposal yet to be received.

#Goa - Independent Social Audit Unit is yet to be constituted. @West Bengal - Release of funds to the State of West Bengal has been stopped as per provision of Section 27 of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 due to non- compliance of directives of Central Government.

Page 3 of 4Annexure-II Annexure referred to in reply to part (e) of LokSabhaUnstarred Question No. 4345 dated 19.08.2025.

State/UTs-wise, the details of social audits conducted under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS in FY 2021-22.

SI. Total number of Gram Panchayats audited State No. FY 2021-22 1 Andhra Pradesh 5,936 2 Arunachal Pradesh 47 3 Assam 1,510 4 Bihar 2,090 5 Chhattisgarh 7,996 6 Gujarat 1,458 7 Haryana 3,904 8 Himachal Pradesh 2,908 Jammu and 9 Kashmir 1,237 10 Jharkhand 1,132 11 Karnataka 5,690 12 Kerala 313 13 Madhya Pradesh 22,727 14 Maharashtra 5,635 15 Manipur 477 16 Meghalaya 4,207 17 Mizoram 272 18 Nagaland 127 19 Odisha 6,739 20 Punjab 7,795 21 Rajasthan 731 22 Sikkim 37 23 Tamil Nadu 12,515 24 Telangana 3,911 25 Tripura 1,170 26 Uttar Pradesh 36,997 27 Uttarakhand 1,240 28 West Bengal 3,338 Total 1,42,139 ***** Page 4 of 4