Government has constituted a 13-member committee to revise the guidelines of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Scheme, MGNREGS and make it more poor-friendly. The committee to be headed by the member of the Planning Commission, Mihir Shah, will look into ways for removing the impediments in the implementation of the scheme.

The panel will also look into the issues relating to ensuring legal compensation for not providing work on demand, reducing distress migration from rural areas besides focusing on the delay in payments to workers and improving the quality of assets created.

According to an official notification the committee was constituted after several States expressed their difficulties in implementation of the scheme at the ground level. The panel has been given a deadline of three months to submit its report.