Dharmapuri (TN): To monitor implementation of
the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), a
mobile phone-based SMS system for sending attendance data of
labourers to the district Information Centre was launched here
on Sunday.
District Collector P Amudha launched the SMS Governance
system under which the Village People Welfare Workers can
message the number of labourers reporting for work from the
work spot.
This SMS information system was launched in Dharmapuri
district for the first time in the state, she said.
She said NREGS was functioning in the district since April
28, 2008. So far the attendance data of labourers who came for
the works was filed by the concerned People Welfare Workers
personally at the district information by 11 am.
To speed up the communication process, all the 251 People
Welfare Workers in the district were given training to feed
the attendance data through SMS to the district Information
Centre from the work spot within half-an-hour after the work
started.
Bureau Report
First Published: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 19:32