Lok Sabha Question No. 1307 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-07-27
Subject: Delay in Funds under MGNREGS to Workers
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: K. Muraleedharan

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

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1307

ANSWERED ON 27/07/2021

## DELAY IN FUNDS UNDER MGNREGS TO WORKERS

## 1307.   SHRI K. MURALEEDHARAN:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  it  is  true  that  there  is  delay  in  giving  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme(MGNREGS) Funds to the workers;
- (b) if so the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor; and
- (c) the  details  of  funds  sanctioned  under  MGNREGS Scheme to the States during the last three years, Statewise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)

(a) & (b)    Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS) is a demand driven wage employment programme which provides 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. During the current Financial Year 202122 (as on 23.07.2021), around 99.5 % Fund Transfer Orders (FTOs) have been generated within 15 days from the date of closure of the Muster Roll.

In order to streamline the system of fund flow and to ensure timely payment of wages, Ne-FMS was implemented in 2016. So far 25 States and 3 Union Territory have implemented it, wherein payment of wages is being credited directly to the bank/post office accounts of Mahatma Gandhi NREGS beneficiaries by the Central Government through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT).

Further, three States namely, Manipur, Nagaland and Goa and three Union Territories Andaman & Nicobar, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Lakshadweep, are implementing the programme under Electronic Fund Management System (eFMS).

(c):        Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Scheme  (Mahatma  Gandhi NREGS) being a demand driven scheme, no State/UT- wise fund allocation is made. State/UTwise  details  of  central  fund  released  under  Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS  during  the  last  three financial years 2018-19, 2019-20, and 2020-21 is given at Annexure .

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## Annexure referred to in reply to part (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.1307 dated 27.07.2021

## State/UT-wise detail of central fund released under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS during the last three financial years 2018-19, 2019-20, and 2020-21

(Rs. in crore)

| S No.   | States/UTs                                   |   2018-19 |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |
|---------|----------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1       | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR                          |      7.62 |      5.84 |      4.86 |
| 2       | ANDHRA PRADESH                               |   6684.54 |   7311.48 |  10365.5  |
| 3       | ARUNACHAL PRADESH                            |    163.25 |    107.57 |    348.95 |
| 4       | ASSAM                                        |   1050.37 |   1476.24 |   2636.07 |
| 5       | BIHAR                                        |   2891.94 |   3283.88 |   6647.26 |
| 6       | CHHATTISGARH                                 |   3082.94 |   2792.41 |   4144.19 |
| 7       | GOA                                          |      0.49 |      2.17 |      0.91 |
| 8       | GUJARAT                                      |   1060.8  |    775.84 |   1513.9  |
| 9       | HARYANA                                      |    356.25 |    345.27 |    776.67 |
| 10      | HIMACHAL PRADESH                             |    778.74 |    615.37 |    964.98 |
| 11      | JAMMU AND KASHMIR                            |    620.36 |    825.62 |   1166.63 |
| 12      | JHARKHAND                                    |   1538.06 |   1311.15 |   3490.25 |
| 13      | KARNATAKA                                    |   3040.25 |   5546.2  |   5605.48 |
| 14      | KERALA                                       |   2354.74 |   3541.12 |   4300.32 |
| 15      | LADAKH                                       |      0    |      0    |     22.49 |
| 16      | LAKSHADWEEP                                  |      0.16 |      0.24 |      0    |
| 17      | MADHYA PRADESH                               |   4681.41 |   4825.63 |   9225.4  |
| 18      | MAHARASHTRA                                  |   2014.64 |   1723.25 |   1639.78 |
| 19      | MANIPUR                                      |    269.6  |    610.75 |    737.57 |
| 20      | MEGHALAYA                                    |    786.14 |   1026.64 |   1286.63 |
| 21      | MIZORAM                                      |    392.37 |    526.74 |    576.81 |
| 22      | NAGALAND                                     |    138.86 |    298.54 |    483.82 |
| 23      | ODISHA                                       |   2218.21 |   2488.22 |   5409.5  |
| 24      | PUDUCHERRY                                   |     14.75 |     17.04 |     27.13 |
| 25      | PUNJAB                                       |    598.55 |    776.89 |   1287.86 |
| 26      | RAJASTHAN                                    |   5492.31 |   6891.74 |   9129.03 |
| 27      | SIKKIM                                       |     97.43 |     83.66 |    101.54 |
| 28      | TAMIL NADU                                   |   4951.66 |   5447.8  |   8941.26 |
| 29      | TELANGANA                                    |   2958.17 |   2246.78 |   4163.57 |
| 30      | THE DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI AND DAMAN AND DIU |      4.84 |      0    |      0    |
| 31      | TRIPURA                                      |    442.54 |    740.05 |   1199.93 |
| 32      | UTTAR PRADESH                                |   5464.65 |   6240.17 |  12257.4  |
| 33      | UTTARAKHAND                                  |    610.05 |    470.61 |    908.89 |
| 34      | WEST BENGAL                                  |   7358.38 |   8458.21 |  10993.6  |
|         | Total                                        |  62125.1  |  70813.1  | 110358    |

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