Lok Sabha Question No. 1497 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-07-26
Subject: Targets Fixed for Works under MGNREGS
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: DARSHANA VIKRAM JARDOSH

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1497 TO BE ANSWERED ON 26.07.2018

## TARGETS FIXED FOR WORKS UNDER MGNREGS

## 1497.   SHRIMATI DARSHANA VIKRAM JARDOSH:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the  targets  fixed  for  works  under  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) during the last one year and the achievements made therein, State/UTwise separately for Surat district of Gujarat; and
- (b) the number of people provided jobs and the number of mandays created under the said scheme, State/UT-wise, separately for Surat district of Gujarat?

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

- (a): The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 provides at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every rural household  whose  adult members  volunteer  to do unskilled  manual  work. MGNREGA is a demand driven programme having bottom  up  approach. The  planning  and priority of works are taken up at the Gram Sabha level. According to State Government, Surat district  had  a  target  of  9256  works,  out  of  which  5478  works  have  been  completed  during FY 2017-18.
- (b): State/UTs-wise details of employment provided to individuals and persondays generated including Surat district of Gujarat under the MGNREGS during last year 2017-18 are given at Annexure .

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Annexure  referred  in  reply  to  part  (b)  of  Lok  Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1497 dated 26.07.2018

FY: 2017-18                                                                         ( in lakh)

| S No.   | States              |   Employment provided to individuals |   Persondays generated |
|---------|---------------------|--------------------------------------|------------------------|
| 1       | ANDHRA PRADESH      |                                64.93 |                2122.1  |
| 2       | ARUNACHAL PRADESH   |                                 1.48 |                  42.8  |
| 3       | ASSAM               |                                26.07 |                 481.7  |
| 4       | BIHAR               |                                27.05 |                 817.81 |
| 5       | CHHATTISGARH        |                                42.78 |                1199.31 |
| 6       | GOA                 |                                 0.07 |                   0.99 |
| 7       | GUJARAT             |                                13.94 |                 353.1  |
| 8       | HARYANA             |                                 3.96 |                  90.37 |
| 9       | HIMACHAL PRADESH    |                                 6.71 |                 220.06 |
| 10      | JAMMU AND KASHMIR   |                                10.36 |                 379.79 |
| 11      | JHARKHAND           |                                19.08 |                 592.78 |
| 12      | KARNATAKA           |                                38.98 |                 858.59 |
| 13      | KERALA              |                                14.71 |                 619.59 |
| 14      | MADHYA PRADESH      |                                61    |                1622.86 |
| 15      | MAHARASHTRA         |                                31.4  |                 825.32 |
| 16      | MANIPUR             |                                 5.27 |                  61.25 |
| 17      | MEGHALAYA           |                                 5.91 |                 291.88 |
| 18      | MIZORAM             |                                 2.07 |                 144.38 |
| 19      | NAGALAND            |                                 4.57 |                 237.22 |
| 20      | ODISHA              |                                37.56 |                 922.34 |
| 21      | PUNJAB              |                                 8.1  |                 223.14 |
| 22      | RAJASTHAN           |                                65.31 |                2397.78 |
| 23      | SIKKIM              |                                 0.74 |                  34.61 |
| 24      | TAMIL NADU          |                                68.29 |                2388.81 |
| 25      | TELANGANA           |                                43.37 |                1146.63 |
| 26      | TRIPURA             |                                 7.07 |                 176.04 |
| 27      | UTTAR PRADESH       |                                60.52 |                1818.37 |
| 28      | UTTARAKHAND         |                                 6.63 |                 223.04 |
| 29      | WEST BENGAL         |                                81.01 |                3125.57 |
| 30      | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR |                                 0.08 |                   1.9  |
| 31      | LAKSHADWEEP         |                                 0    |                   0.06 |
| 32      | PUDUCHERRY          |                                 0.41 |                   7.26 |
| Total   | Total               |                               759.44 |               23427.5  |

State: GUJARAT

District: SURAT

FY: 2017-18

| District   | Employment provided to individuals   | Persondays generated (in Nos)   |
|------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------------------|
| SURAT      | 65,765                               | 22,07,444                       |