About 8.55 crore households demanded MGNREGA work in 2020-21, followed by 8.05 crore in 2021-22, compared to a total of 6.16 core households asking for work in the pre-pandemic year 2019-20.

₹3,358 crore in MGNREGA wages not paid Government reply in Rajya Sabha comes amid cut in budget allocation to the rural jobs scheme by 25%. Updated - February 03, 2022 11:19 am IST - NEW DELHI.

At Jantar Mantar, the MGNREGA workers, mostly women, still stand strong a month into the protest. They’ve witnessed the biting cold change into a warm and bright summer.

This was largely a result of a decline in funds made available to MGNREGA, which fell not only in nominal terms after 2009-10, but also in real terms, by more than half by 2013-14 compared with ...

Bhopal, June 16 -- Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a nationwide campaign is being carried out to realize the vision of empowerment for the poor, women, farmers, and youth.

In fact, rural wages remained stagnant between 2000-01 and 2005-06 and it was after implementation of MGNREGA (from 2005-06 to 2010-11) that the growth rate of agricultural wages increased to 2.7% ...

NEW DELHI: Pitching for immediate reforms in the Centre\'s flagship rural job scheme MGNREGA, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said the complaints of corruption and irregularities regardin ...

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Yet, the labour participation in MGNREGA has not grown, proven by the fact that only 2.3 billion person-days of labour were generated both in 2015-'16 and 2012-'13, despite a 27% wage increase.

Since 2012-13, MGNREGA budget allocations have consistently fallen short of demand for work, resulting in spending excesses of over ~5000 crores (2017-18 figures).

MGNREGA played a significant role in helping rural people cope with the pandemic stress, generating for them more total workdays in comparison with the pre-pandemic time, a senior official has said.