The Union Government on Friday informed that a total of 187.5 crore person days have been generated under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in FY 2024-25, providing employment to 4.6 crore rural households
As per government data, this is a 76 per cent increase in the last decade, from 1,660 crore generated between FY 2006-07 to FY 2013-14.
The Ministry of Rural Development on Sunday said it has been noticed by the Ministry that some section of the media has quoted that “Rural Employment under MGNREGS dip by 16 per cent in the first half of the current year.'
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has long been viewed as a barometer of rural distress in India. However, the recent Economic Survey challenges this perception
With rural spending outpacing urban segments, the rural-urban divide is narrowing, as the recent monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) survey of the NSSO highlights.
The Central government has asked all states to ensure that Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) beneficiaries should…
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said in a statement that the scheme proved to be of immense help in providing jobs to migrants who came back to rural areas in large numbers amid the peak of pandemic.
For the financial year 2020-21, a sum of Rs 31,493 crore has already been released which is more than 50 per cent of the budget estimate of the current Financial Year.
The surge in facts and figures between 20 April, when work began for this fiscal and now, reaffirms the shattering impact of the lockdown in the season of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Many of these labourers would be completely dependent on the MNREGA scheme for their livelihood, in the days to come, sources in the department said.
