Despite recent Planning Commission report mentioning that the people living below poverty line has increased in Meghalaya, the state government is trying hard not only to arrest this slide but also make these families meet both ends by implementing MGNREGS more rigorously. AIR Shillong Correspondent reports that the recentPlanning Commission Report has come as setback for the Meghalaya government, which is trying hard fight hunger and poverty in the state. He says, to root out corruption in implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the state government recently introduced to pay workers through biometric smart cards, which is a first in the entire north-eastern region. The scheme, involving Axis Bank, has been launched on a pilot basis recently under the aegis of the Reserve Bank of India. State government has also performed better than national average in implementation of MGNREGA in giving ‘person days’ to every eligible household. The state provided an average of 57.73 'person-days' per household to 3.5 lakh households, which was higher than the national average of 42.04 'person-days' per household, an annual report for the year 2010-11 states. The report saw at least four districts with more than 95 per cent of their labour projection.