The Hindu Editorial Analysis : 3rd January 2024

The Hindu Editorial Analysis

The Importance of Reading The Hindu Editorial: Reading The Hindu newspaper has several benefits, including improving reading skills, facilitating comprehension, staying informed of current events, enhancing essay writing, and more. For individuals aiming for a career in banking, reading editorials is crucial for vocabulary building. In this article, we will examine today’s editorials, provide practice questions, and highlight important vocabulary words.

Aadhaar seeding and MGNREGA beneficiaries:

• To enable the payments through Aadhaar based payment system, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) beneficiaries need to seed their job card with Aadhaar card.
• The government refused the extension of the deadline to aadhar seeding for the workers coming under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The deadline to aadhaar seeding was 31st December 2023.
• The decision of the government to not extend the aadhar seeding deadline for the workers of MGNREGS creates an alarming situation and it affects around 35 percent job card holders for Aadhar based payment system.
• Around 12.7 percent of active workers who have worked at least one day if we talk about the last three financial years have been badly affected by this mandatory scheme to seed their job card with Aadhaar.
• According to the government ABPS will make payment faster and decrease the chances of rejection of the transaction and it is also the safer and quicker way to transfer the wages to the workers.
• One of the reports of LibTech India stated that around 7.6 crore workers’ names have been deleted from the last 21 months due to the main problem of aadhaar seeding such as discrepancy between the details provided in aadhar card and details mentioned in their job card.
• There are also some errors occurring while using Aadhaar based payment systems that lead to transaction failure.
• Another problem is the mapping of aadhaar card with the wrong bank account for many.
• According to LibTech India, the first reason for late wages to the workers is insufficient funds.
• Without resolving these issues, making mandatory aadhaar seeding for the workers only creates chaos and problems.
• MGNREGS is a vital Scheme and it needs to be operated without any faulty technology system.

Important Questions:

1. What is Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) ?
2. Describe the benefits of Aadhaar based payment system.
3. According to you, what are some steps taken by the government to resolve the issues of Aadhaar seeding?

Important vocabs:

1. Dampener: A thing that has restraining affect
2. Contend: struggle to surmount a difficulty
3. Recourse: A source of help
4. Erroneously: incorrectly

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