Marking completion of four years of the UPA government’s rural employment guarantee scheme, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh admitted there were some “lapses” in its implementation, including the problem of payment of wages to the workers. Congress President Sonia Gandhi, too, listed problems like delayed payment and unemployment allowance provisions not being followed.
Singh said though several countries had faced difficult economic situation last year coupled with scanty rainfall in the country, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme helped in providing jobs to the poor.
