India, March 16 -- With less than two weeks left in the current fiscal, about Rs 1,100 crore by way of wages of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) labourers is still due at different levels of the payment chain, a civil society organisation has alleged.

The NREGA Sangharsh Morcha has alleged that the government has allocated insufficient funds and that is the reason for the delay in meeting the demand for wage payments of NREGA workers. Debmalya of NREGA Sangharsh Morcha told The Sunday Guardian: "Continued wage payment delay has pushed NERGA towards peril. As per the data reviewed by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, the government still needs Rs 2,000 crore for clearing this year's due wage payments."

"The country ...