MGNREGA; under the scheme of rural employment, an offer to check leakages and bring more clearness, govt has started geotagging of all assets created within it.

As per the Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said, “Every year the government allocates Rs 30000-40000 crore to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to sponsor various works for creation of wages, employment and productive assets”

"The move comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a review meeting recently had underlined the need for online recording and monitoring of assets to check leakages and for effective mapping of resources”he added.

Secretary Rural Development Amarjeet Sinha aforesaid that, “Geotagging of assets will capture latitude and longitude of the asset. And for this Rural Development Ministry has signed MoU with ISRO on June 24 this year”

“Geo-tagged assets will not only ease identification and monitoring; it can also be implemented to perform additional developmental works on existing assets”, Sinha added.