Nearly 27 lakh workers were removed from the database of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme between October 10 and November 14, far more than the 10.5 lakh new names added in the same period, The Hindu quoted an analysis by a non-profit research organisation as saying.

The surge in deletions coincides with the Union government’s push to conduct online Know Your Customer or e-KYC verification, the newspaper reported.

The e-KYC process requires supervisors to click photographs of each of the workers and upload them on MGNREGS’ digital attendance application, the National Mobile Monitoring System to match them with their Aadhaar data.

The government introduced e-KYC after finding the digital attendance system was being “misused”.

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