Lok Sabha Question No. 411 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-07-22
Subject: Minimum Workdays under MGNREGS
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Ram Shiromani Verma

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 411 ANSWERED ON 22/07/2025

## MINIMUM WORKDAYS UNDER MGNREGS

## 411. SHRI RAM SHIROMANI VERMA:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the  number  of  man-days  created  during  the  financial  years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in Shravasti and Balrampur districts;
- (b) the number of  workers benefited from it during the said period;
- (c) the number of workers getting full employment for 100 days in the said districts;
- (d) whether  the  Government  has  received  complaints  from  the said districts regarding non-payment of dues on time, if so, the steps taken to resolve the issue; and
- (e) whether the Government proposes to increase the employment guarantee of 100 days under the MGNREG Scheme and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

- (a):     Details of person-days generated in Shravasti and Balrampur districts  of  Uttar  Pradesh  under  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural Employment  Guarantee  Scheme  (Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS)  during the financial years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 is given below:

|                | Persondays generated (in lakh)   | Persondays generated (in lakh)   | Persondays generated (in lakh)   |
|----------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| Financial Year | 2022-23                          | 2023-24                          | 2024-25                          |
| Shravasti      | 24.32                            | 30.82                            | 31.62                            |
| Balrampur      | 44.68                            | 59.28                            | 49.88                            |

(As per NREGASoft)

(b):   Number of  workers who availed the employment in Shravasti and  Balrampur  districts  of  Uttar  Pradesh  under  Mahatma  Gandhi NREGS during the financial years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25  is given below:

|                | Workers availed employment (in numbers)   | Workers availed employment (in numbers)   | Workers availed employment (in numbers)   |
|----------------|-------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
| Financial Year | 2022-23                                   | 2023-24                                   | 2024-25                                   |
| Shravasti      | 65666                                     | 63839                                     | 63989                                     |
| Balrampur      | 103214                                    | 125028                                    | 99319                                     |

(As per NREGASoft)

(c):  Number of household who availed the 100 days employment in Shravasti and Balrampur districts of Uttar Pradesh under Mahatma Gandhi  NREGS  during  the  financial  years  2022-23,  2023-24  and 2024-25  is given below:

|                | Households completed 100 days of employment (in numbers)   | Households completed 100 days of employment (in numbers)   | Households completed 100 days of employment (in numbers)   |
|----------------|------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|
| Financial Year | 2022-23                                                    | 2023-24                                                    | 2024-25                                                    |
| Shravasti      | 3027                                                       | 3893                                                       | 5522                                                       |
| Balrampur      | 6766                                                       | 15695                                                      | 8742                                                       |

(As per NREGASoft)

(d):     No  such  complaints  have  been   received from  Shravasti  and Balrampur districts of Uttar Pradesh in this Ministry.

(e): The  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee Act  (Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGA),  2005,  is  an  Act  to  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.

The Ministry mandates the provision of an additional 50 days of  wage  employment  (beyond  the  stipulated  100  days)  to  every Scheduled  Tribe  Household  in  a  forest  area,  provided  that  these households have no other private property except for the land rights provided under the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006.

In addition to this, there is a provision for providing up to an additional  50  days  of  wage  employment  in  a  financial  year  in drought/natural  calamity-affected  notified  rural  areas.  Further,  as per  Section  3(4)  of  the  Act,  the  State  Governments  may  make provision  for  providing  additional  days  of  employment  beyond  the period guaranteed under the Act from their own funds.

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