Small feature Big Impact
Chhattisgarh found it a very nasty practice & tried to take lot of steps to curtail it. A small effort with big impact in this direction was issuance of withdrawal form along with wageslip to the labourer by the block office itself.
The wage slip generated after the wage list acted as a voucher & was given to the labourers even earlier but now along with the wage slip the labourer was also given a pre- printed withdrawal form approved by the post office. The labourer was now able to get the withdrawal form in advance & could get it filled in the village itself.
The wage slip generated along with the withdrawal form also has the tollfree number of district citizen helpline printed on it. It also has printed on it the number of days the labourer had already worked & number of days pending