Lok Sabha Question No. 1614 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-12-28
Subject: Unemployment Allowance under MGNREGS
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: SUNIL KUMAR MONDAL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1614

TO BE ANSWERED ON 28.12.2017

## UNEMPLOYMENT ALLOWANCE UNDER MGNREGS

## 1614.   SHRI SUNIL KUMAR MONDAL:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  unemployment  allowance  is  being  paid  to  job  card  holders  of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) across the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof for the last three years and the current year, State/ UTwise; and
- (c) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV)

(a) to (c): As  per  Section  7  of  the  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment Guarantee  Act,  2005,  unemployment  allowance  is  payable  in  case  an  applicant  is  not provided  employment  within  15  days  of  receipt  of  his  application  seeking  employment  or from  the  date  on  which  employment  has  been  sought  in  case  of  an  advance  application, whichever is later.

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)  is implemented  by  States/UTs  and  the  liability  of  payment  of  unemployment  allowance  to household's rests with them. As per information made available in NREGASoft (MIS), the details  of  States/UT-wise  payment  of  unemployment  allowance  during  the  last  three  years and current year are given at Annexure.

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Annexure  referred  in  reply  to  parts  (a)to(c)  of  Lok  Sabha  Starred Question No. 1614 dated 28.12.2017

|       |                  | Unemployment Allowance paid to workers (Rs. in lakh)   | Unemployment Allowance paid to workers (Rs. in lakh)   | Unemployment Allowance paid to workers (Rs. in lakh)   | Unemployment Allowance paid to workers (Rs. in lakh)   |
|-------|------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
| S No. | State            | 2014-15                                                | 2015-16                                                | 2016-17                                                | 2017-18* (As on 22.12.2017)                            |
| 1.    | BIHAR            | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0.02                                                   |
| 2.    | GUJARAT          | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0.13                                                   |
| 3.    | HIMACHAL PRADESH | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0.02                                                   |
| 4.    | JHARKHAND        | 0                                                      | 0.01                                                   | 1.12                                                   | 0.37                                                   |
| 5.    | KARNATAKA        | 0.66                                                   | 0                                                      | 0.11                                                   | 0.05                                                   |
| 6.    | KERALA           | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0.09                                                   |
| 7.    | MADHYAPRADESH    | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0.02                                                   |
| 8.    | MAHARASHTRA      | 0.26                                                   | 0.45                                                   | 0.01                                                   | 0.21                                                   |
| 9.    | RAJASTHAN        | 0                                                      | 0.02                                                   | 0                                                      | 0                                                      |
| 10.   | TAMILNADU        | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0.01                                                   |
| 11.   | TRIPURA          | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0.16                                                   | 0                                                      |
| 12.   | UTTAR PRADESH    | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0                                                      |
| 13.   | UTTARAKHAND      | 0                                                      | 0                                                      | 0.11                                                   | 0.05                                                   |
|       | Total            | 0.92                                                   | 0.48                                                   | 1.51                                                   | 0.97                                                   |

*Note:  Actual  amount  paid  in  the  financial  year  for  the  present  and  previous Financial Years.