Tamil Nadu Farm Workers’ Union Urges End to Biometric Attendance for 1 Rural Jobs Scheme
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Updated · The Hindu · Jul 4
Tamil Nadu Farm Workers’ Union Urges End to Biometric Attendance for 1 Rural Jobs Scheme
1 articles · Updated · The Hindu · Jul 4
Summary
A union resolution said the mandatory fingerprint-and-iris attendance system under VB-G RAM G has cost thousands of rural workers jobs and wages by marking genuine workers absent.
Daily biometric check-ins at worksites have replaced NMMS and other tech-based monitoring, but the union said weak internet links and poor digital infrastructure make the system unreliable in rural areas.
The Tamil Nadu Agricultural Workers’ Union called the system anti-worker and said it undermines the scheme’s purpose of guaranteeing employment to rural households.
At a western districts meeting attended by leaders from Erode, Coimbatore and Tiruppur, the union urged the state government to press New Delhi to scrap biometrics and restore a worker-friendly attendance method.