Lok Sabha Question No. 1945 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-01
Subject: Average Days of Employment under MGNREGS
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: S. Venkatesan

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1945 ANSWERED ON 01/08/2023

## AVERAGE DAYS OF EMPLOYMENT UNDER MGNREGS

## 1945. SHRI S. VENKATESAN:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the average days of employment provided per household under the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) during each of the last five financial years starting from 2018-19 to 2022-23;
- (b) the average days of employment provided per household under MGNREGS in the first quarter of the current financial year; and
- (c) the number and percentage of all job cardholding households interested in working under the MGNREGS who did not get a single day of work during the said period?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## (SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)

- (a): State/UT-wise details of average days of employment provided per households under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment  Guarantee  Scheme  (Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS)  during the  last  five  financial  years  from  2018-19  to  2022-23  are  given  at Annexure.
- (b):    As per NREGASoft, the average days of employment provided per household under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS in the first quarter of the current financial year 2023-24 (as on 30.06.2023) is 27.98 .
- (c): The details of households demanded employment and households  offered  employment under  Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS  in the  first  quarter  of  the  current  financial  year  2023-24  (as  on 30.06.2023) is given below:

| (Figure in crore)          | (Figure in crore)                 | (Figure in crore)                | (Figure in crore)                              |
|----------------------------|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
| Financial Year             | Employment demanded by households | Employment offered to households | Percentage of household offered employment (%) |
| 2023-24 (as on 30.06.2023) | 4.54                              | 4.53                             | 99.78%                                         |

(As per NREGASoft)

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Annexure referred in reply to part (a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1945 dated 01.08.2023.

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| Sl. No.                                                                                                                           | 2018-19                                                                                                                           | Average days of employment provided per households                                                                                | Average days of employment provided per households                                                                                | Average days of employment provided per households                                                                                | Average days of employment provided per households                                                                                |
| State/UT                                                                                                                          | 2018-19                                                                                                                           | 2019-20                                                                                                                           | 2020-21                                                                                                                           | 2021-22                                                                                                                           | 2022-23                                                                                                                           |
| 1Andhra Pradesh                                                                                                                   | 58.32                                                                                                                             | 49.59                                                                                                                             | 54.35                                                                                                                             | 51.64                                                                                                                             | 52.27                                                                                                                             |
| 2Arunachal Pradesh                                                                                                                | 42.93                                                                                                                             | 48.64                                                                                                                             | 56.75                                                                                                                             | 61.18                                                                                                                             | 55.80                                                                                                                             |
| 3Assam                                                                                                                            | 30.58                                                                                                                             | 32.31                                                                                                                             | 36.31                                                                                                                             | 33.48                                                                                                                             | 34.28                                                                                                                             |
| 4Bihar                                                                                                                            | 42.19                                                                                                                             | 42.02                                                                                                                             | 44.65                                                                                                                             | 37.75                                                                                                                             | 47.15                                                                                                                             |
| 5Chhattisgarh                                                                                                                     | 56.75                                                                                                                             | 55.69                                                                                                                             | 60.15                                                                                                                             | 59.29                                                                                                                             | 51.48                                                                                                                             |
| 6Goa                                                                                                                              | 13.64                                                                                                                             | 20.00                                                                                                                             | 26.28                                                                                                                             | 28.56                                                                                                                             | 25.50                                                                                                                             |
| 7Gujarat                                                                                                                          | 46.05                                                                                                                             | 43.19                                                                                                                             | 42.52                                                                                                                             | 49.67                                                                                                                             | 45.33                                                                                                                             |
| 8Haryana                                                                                                                          | 33.72                                                                                                                             | 35.37                                                                                                                             | 39.31                                                                                                                             | 36.26                                                                                                                             | 31.33                                                                                                                             |
| 9Himachal Pradesh                                                                                                                 | 51.52                                                                                                                             | 48.41                                                                                                                             | 52.81                                                                                                                             | 52.48                                                                                                                             | 47.60                                                                                                                             |
| 10Jammu And Kashmir                                                                                                               | 56.55                                                                                                                             | 49.52                                                                                                                             | 54.32                                                                                                                             | 56.06                                                                                                                             | 43.70                                                                                                                             |
| 11Jharkhand                                                                                                                       | 42.17                                                                                                                             | 46.36                                                                                                                             | 46.35                                                                                                                             | 45.27                                                                                                                             | 44.32                                                                                                                             |
| 12Karnataka                                                                                                                       | 49.56                                                                                                                             | 49.99                                                                                                                             | 49.09                                                                                                                             | 48.21                                                                                                                             | 42.61                                                                                                                             |
| 13Kerala                                                                                                                          | 65.97                                                                                                                             | 55.75                                                                                                                             | 63.25                                                                                                                             | 64.41                                                                                                                             | 62.26                                                                                                                             |
| 14Ladakh                                                                                                                          | NA                                                                                                                                | 61.20                                                                                                                             | 65.70                                                                                                                             | 59.78                                                                                                                             | 57.87                                                                                                                             |
| 15Madhya Pradesh                                                                                                                  | 51.79                                                                                                                             | 53.30                                                                                                                             | 61.84                                                                                                                             | 57.95                                                                                                                             | 50.02                                                                                                                             |
| 16Maharashtra                                                                                                                     | 47.18                                                                                                                             | 40.96                                                                                                                             | 40.34                                                                                                                             | 40.54                                                                                                                             | 37.16                                                                                                                             |
| 17Manipur                                                                                                                         | 22.88                                                                                                                             | 43.23                                                                                                                             | 60.40                                                                                                                             | 54.50                                                                                                                             | 20.69                                                                                                                             |
| 18Meghalaya                                                                                                                       | 71.97                                                                                                                             | 73.22                                                                                                                             | 71.53                                                                                                                             | 73.72                                                                                                                             | 60.26                                                                                                                             |
| 19Mizoram                                                                                                                         | 92.42                                                                                                                             | 94.62                                                                                                                             | 92.94                                                                                                                             | 94.65                                                                                                                             | 93.64                                                                                                                             |
| 20Nagaland                                                                                                                        | 34.40                                                                                                                             | 35.47                                                                                                                             | 45.91                                                                                                                             | 46.48                                                                                                                             | 46.81                                                                                                                             |
| 21Odisha                                                                                                                          | 38.64                                                                                                                             | 47.90                                                                                                                             | 55.51                                                                                                                             | 56.91                                                                                                                             | 55.51                                                                                                                             |
| 22Punjab                                                                                                                          | 30.30                                                                                                                             | 31.23                                                                                                                             | 39.52                                                                                                                             | 37.88                                                                                                                             | 37.97                                                                                                                             |
| 23Rajasthan                                                                                                                       | 56.97                                                                                                                             | 58.96                                                                                                                             | 61.06                                                                                                                             | 59.92                                                                                                                             | 56.28                                                                                                                             |
| 24Sikkim                                                                                                                          | 54.29                                                                                                                             | 50.98                                                                                                                             | 57.60                                                                                                                             | 54.09                                                                                                                             | 54.06                                                                                                                             |
| 25Tamil Nadu                                                                                                                      | 46.08                                                                                                                             | 43.99                                                                                                                             | 50.22                                                                                                                             | 50.95                                                                                                                             | 50.96                                                                                                                             |
| 26Telangana                                                                                                                       | 46.65                                                                                                                             | 43.21                                                                                                                             | 50.77                                                                                                                             | 50.31                                                                                                                             | 44.56                                                                                                                             |
| 27Tripura                                                                                                                         | 46.07                                                                                                                             | 60.78                                                                                                                             | 74.66                                                                                                                             | 71.85                                                                                                                             | 59.92                                                                                                                             |
| 28Uttar Pradesh                                                                                                                   | 42.05                                                                                                                             | 46.00                                                                                                                             | 41.83                                                                                                                             | 41.95                                                                                                                             | 44.41                                                                                                                             |
| 29Uttarakhand                                                                                                                     | 45.35                                                                                                                             | 40.90                                                                                                                             | 46.42                                                                                                                             | 42.42                                                                                                                             | 41.20                                                                                                                             |
| 30West Bengal                                                                                                                     | 76.91                                                                                                                             | 49.89                                                                                                                             | 51.98                                                                                                                             | 47.94                                                                                                                             | 23.24                                                                                                                             |
| 31Andaman and Nicobar                                                                                                             | 31.79                                                                                                                             | 38.03                                                                                                                             | 33.77                                                                                                                             | 23.57                                                                                                                             | 27.64                                                                                                                             |
| 32 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu                                                                                       | 0.00                                                                                                                              | 0.00                                                                                                                              | 0.00                                                                                                                              | 0.00                                                                                                                              | 0.00                                                                                                                              |
| 33Lakshadweep                                                                                                                     | 34.00                                                                                                                             | 43.00                                                                                                                             | 32.15                                                                                                                             | 29.96                                                                                                                             | 45.74                                                                                                                             |
| 34Puducherry                                                                                                                      | 20.02                                                                                                                             | 19.32                                                                                                                             | 22.06                                                                                                                             | 16.02                                                                                                                             | 19.61                                                                                                                             |
| National                                                                                                                          | 50.87                                                                                                                             | 48.40                                                                                                                             | 51.53                                                                                                                             | 50.07                                                                                                                             | 47.84                                                                                                                             |

(As per NREGASoft)

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