Employment Union and State (Concurrent)Cost approach stated
Make existing employment guarantees actually pay on time
The problem
Delayed wage payment under existing employment programmes is a recurring and well-documented complaint.
Why it matters
A guaranteed wage paid late is a loan from the poorest people in the country to the state.
Proposed solution
Track payment delay as a first-class public metric at block level, and escalate every delayed payment as a tracked issue on this platform.
How it would be implemented
Citizen reporting through the issue system, aggregated by block, escalated through the existing grievance machinery, published monthly.
Risks, and what we would do about them
Risk
Our sample is only those who report, which will not be representative.
Mitigation
Always publish the number of reports alongside the metric, and label it as reported experience, not official data.