Lok Sabha Question No. 3559 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-17
Subject: Flood-hit Areas under MGNREGS
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Krishna Prasad Tenneti

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

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3559 ANSWERED ON 17/12/2024

## FLOOD-HIT AREAS UNDER MGNREGS

## 3559. SHRI KRISHNA PRASAD TENNETI:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENTbe pleased to state:

- (a) the  details  and  total  number  of  flood-hit  districts  wherein special provisions under Mahatma  Gandhi  National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) have been implemented  during  the  last  five  years  in  the  country,  Statewise  including  Bapatla  Parliamentary  Constituency  of  Andhra Pradesh;
- (b)
- the  details  and  total  number  of  beneficiaries  under  special provisions  of  MGNREGS in  flood-hit  areas  during  the  last  five years in Andhra Pradesh in a district-wise manner, especially in
- Bapatla Parliamentary Constituency;
- (c) the  details  and  the  total  amount  of  funds  allocated,  released and  utilised  under  the  MGNREGS  scheme  for  flood-hit  areas during  the  last  five  years  in  a  State-wise  manner,  in  Andhra Pradesh and in Bapatla Parliamentary Constituency; and
- (d)   whether
- the Government has increased the number of workdays for beneficiaries based in locations that face repeated extreme weather/natural disasters, if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN)

(a),(b)& (d): Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee  Scheme  (Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS)  is  a  demand-driven wage employment scheme, 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.

In  exercise  of  the  provisions  under  Section  3(4)  of  Mahatma Gandhi NREGA, the Central Government has decided to provide  an additional employment of up to 50 days for unskilled manual work in a financial year, over and above the 100 days assured to job card holders in such rural areas where drought or any natural calamity has  been  notified.  The  notification  to  provide  up  to  additional  50 days of unskilled manual work, over and above 100 days in drought or natural calamity notified rural areas, is issued by the Ministry of Rural  Development  in  consultation  with  Ministry  of  Agriculture  & Farmers Welfare.

Over  the  last  five  financial  years,  special  provisions  under Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS  have  been  implemented  in  drought  or natural calamity-notified rural areas across several states, including Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Odisha and Rajasthan.

Details of drought and natural calamity-affected States, where additional  employment  of  up  to  50  days  has  been   given  under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS during the last five financial years i.e. from FY  2019-20 to FY 2024-25 (as on 12.12.2024) are given below:

Details  of  drought  and  natural  calamity-affected  States,  where additional employment of up to 50 days over and above 100 days per  household  in  a  financial  year,  was  given  under  Mahatma Gandhi NREGS  during the last five financial years 2019-20 to the current financial year 2024-25 (as on 12.12.2024).

| Financial Year   | 2019-20                     | 2020-21                     | 2021-22                     | 2022- 23   | 2023- 24   | 2024- 25   |
|------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|------------|------------|------------|
| States           | KarnatakaKarnatakaKarnataka | KarnatakaKarnatakaKarnataka | KarnatakaKarnatakaKarnataka | _          | _          |            |
| States           | Kerala                      |                             | Rajasthan                   |            |            | Kerala     |
|                  | Manipur                     |                             |                             |            |            |            |
|                  | Odisha                      |                             |                             |            |            |            |
|                  | Rajasthan                   |                             |                             |            |            |            |

(c): There  are  no  separate  funds  allocation/release  for  flood-hit areas under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS.

Under  the  Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS  while  wage  payment  are released by Central Govt in the bank accounts of workers in  DBT mode, in case of Material and Admin component Central Government  releases  funds  to  State  Government,   which  in  turn releases  the  funds  to  districts.  During  the  current  financial  year 2024-25  (as  on  11.12.2024)  an  amount  of  Rs.  7,315.74  crore  has been released towards wage, material, & administrative contingency to the State of Andhra Pradesh under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS.

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