Lok Sabha Question No. 1402 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-20
Subject: Employment in Rural Areas
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Rajan Baburao  Vichare

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

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1402

ANSWERED ON 20/09/2020

## EMPLOYMENT IN RURAL AREAS

## 1402.   SHRI RAJAN VICHARE:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Ministry has any scheme to provide jobs at panchayat level;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the number of persons provided jobs under the Poor Welfare Employment campaign so far during the COVID-19 pandemic; and
- (d) the length (in Kilometres) of roads constructed so far under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana last year along with the details thereof, State-wise?

## ANSWER

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

(a)&(b):        The Ministry  is  implementing  the  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment Guarantee Act,  2005 (Mahatma Gandhi NREGA), through States/UTs which assure upto 100 days  of  wage  employment  in  a  financial  year  to  every  rural  household  whose  adult  member volunteers to do unskilled manual work. Gram panchayat is the implementing agency under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme at panchayat level. Under the scheme ,during the current  financial year 203 crore persondays have been generated from April 2020- 17 September 2020.

- (c):    there  is  no  'Poor  Welfare  employment  campaign'  being  run  by  the  Ministry.  However under Garib Kalayan Rojgar Abhayan (GKRA), launched on 20 June 2020, a total of about 28 Crore Mandays Employment has been generated so far under GKRA in 116 districts selected for the Abhiyan in 6 States.
- (d):     The  State-wise  details  of  length  (in  Kilometres)  of  roads  constructed  so  far  under  the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana during last year 2019-20, are given at Annexure.

## Annexure referred  in  reply  to  part  (d)  of  Lok  Sabha  Unstarred  Question No.1402 dated 20.09.2020

## ANNEXURE

| Sl. No.   | State             | Completed Length   |
|-----------|-------------------|--------------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    | 301                |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh | 1,731              |
| 3         | Assam             | 3,647              |
| 4         | Bihar             | 715                |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      | 1,952              |
| 6         | Himachal Pradesh  | 1,087              |
| 7         | Jammu And Kashmir | 1,175              |
| 8         | Jharkhand         | 1,409              |
| 9         | Karnataka         | 6                  |
| 10        | Kerala            | 126                |
| 11        | Ladakh            | 151                |
| 12        | Madhya Pradesh    | 1,872              |
| 13        | Maharashtra       | 120                |
| 14        | Manipur           | 754                |
| 15        | Meghalaya         | 274                |
| 16        | Mizoram           | 345                |
| 17        | Nagaland          | 189                |
| 18        | Odisha            | 5,298              |
| 19        | Punjab            | 29                 |
| 20        | Rajasthan         | 104                |
| 21        | Sikkim            | 68                 |
| 22        | Tamilnadu         | 1,066              |
| 23        | Tripura           | 85                 |
| 24        | Uttar Pradesh     | 376                |
| 25        | Uttarakhand       | 2,036              |
| 26        | West Bengal       | 2,180              |
| 27        | Telangana         | 206                |
|           | Total             | 27302              |