Lok Sabha Question No. 3294 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-16
Subject: Employment at Panchayat Level
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Riti Pathak

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

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3294 ANSWERED ON 16.03.2021

## EMPLOYMENT AT PANCHAYAT LEVEL

## 3294.   SHRIMATI  RITI PATHAK:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has any scheme to provide employment opportunities at panchayat level; and
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

(a)&(b): The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS) is a demand driven wage employment focused programme which provide for the  enhancement  of  livelihood  security  of  the  households  in  rural  areas  of  the  country  by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

Gram Panchayat is the implementing agency under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme at Panchayat level and at least 50 percent of the works are to be implemented by Gram Panchayats.

States/UTs-wise details of personday generated under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS during the last year and the current FY 2020-21 (as on 11.03.2021) is given at Annexure .

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(Figure in lakh)

| No.   |                     | Personday generated   | Personday generated         |
|-------|---------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------------|
| No.   | States/UTs          | 2019-20               | 2020-21 ( as on 11.03.2021) |
| 1     | ANDHRA PRADESH      | 2002.24               | 2384.36                     |
| 2     | ARUNACHAL PRADESH   | 86.07                 | 109.90                      |
| 3     | ASSAM               | 623.44                | 820.63                      |
| 4     | BIHAR               | 1416.68               | 2081.17                     |
| 5     | CHHATTISGARH        | 1361.75               | 1603.21                     |
| 6     | GOA                 | 0.34                  | 1.04                        |
| 7     | GUJARAT             | 353.70                | 457.46                      |
| 8     | HARYANA             | 91.19                 | 171.71                      |
| 9     | HIMACHAL PRADESH    | 259.19                | 311.33                      |
| 10    | JAMMU AND KASHMIR   | 313.43                | 339.93                      |
| 11    | JHARKHAND           | 641.96                | 1087.37                     |
| 12    | KARNATAKA           | 1118.68               | 1361.77                     |
| 13    | KERALA              | 802.30                | 941.22                      |
| 14    | LADAKH              | 19.03                 | 20.54                       |
| 15    | MADHYA PRADESH      | 1930.98               | 3251.21                     |
| 16    | MAHARASHTRA         | 629.62                | 598.66                      |
| 17    | MANIPUR             | 234.08                | 305.07                      |
| 18    | MEGHALAYA           | 370.22                | 334.77                      |
| 19    | MIZORAM             | 192.96                | 199.03                      |
| 20    | NAGALAND            | 138.48                | 169.60                      |
| 21    | ODISHA              | 1114.05               | 1957.36                     |
| 22    | PUNJAB              | 235.25                | 345.74                      |
| 23    | RAJASTHAN           | 3286.55               | 4302.24                     |
| 24    | SIKKIM              | 29.47                 | 34.15                       |
| 25    | TAMIL NADU          | 2485.10               | 3074.16                     |
| 26    | TELANGANA           | 1071.14               | 1474.03                     |
| 27    | TRIPURA             | 344.02                | 411.38                      |
| 28    | UTTAR PRADESH       | 2444.32               | 3787.17                     |
| 29    | UTTARAKHAND         | 206.23                | 279.04                      |
| 30    | WEST BENGAL         | 2723.05               | 3996.45                     |
| 31    | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR | 2.21                  | 2.47                        |
| 32    | DADRA&NAGAR HAVELI  | 0                     | 0                           |
| 33    | DAMAN &DIU          | 0                     | 0                           |
| 34    | LAKSHADWEEP         | 0.043                 | 0.022                       |
| 35    | PUDUCHERRY          | 7.65                  | 10.56                       |
|       | Total               | 26535.44              | 36224.75                    |