Lok Sabha Question No. 452 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-02-04
Subject: Budgetary Allocation for MGNREGS
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Dr. Shivaji Bandappa Kalge, Thiru D M Kathir Anand

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 452 ANSWERED ON 04/02/2025

## BUDGETARY ALLOCATION FOR MGNREGS

452.  THIRU D M KATHIR ANAND: DR. SHIVAJI BANDAPPA KALGE:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has taken measures to increase the budgetary allocation for Mahatma  Gandhi National Rural Employment  Guarantee  Scheme  (MGNREGS),  Swachh  Bharat and PMAY(Gramin) and other schemes to cater the  welfare of rural people especially women;
- (b)
- if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the measures taken by the Government to increase the number of  working days from 100days to 150 days and effect the 6% increase in wages every year; and
- (d) whether the Government has initiated any special Employment Guarantee  Scheme  for  SC/ST/OBC  and  Minority  communities and 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) and (b): The  Government  of  India  is committed  to  the welfare  and  development  of  rural  communities,  including  women, through sustained efforts and robust policy implementation. Scheme-wise  Budget  Estimates  and  Revised  Estimates  for  the financial  years  2022-23,  2023-24  and  2024-25  (B.E)  in  respect  of schemes being implemented by the Department of Rural Development are given in Annexure.

Under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), which is being implemented by the Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation, the focus remains on sustaining open defecation-free (ODF) villages and

promoting awareness programs to ensure improved health outcomes,  particularly  for  women  and  children.  Details  of  the central share allocated under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) are given below:

| Financial Year   |   Allocation (Rs. in Crore) |
|------------------|-----------------------------|
| 2022-23          |                        5000 |
| 2023-24          |                        7000 |
| 2024-25          |                        7192 |

With  regard  to  welfare  of  women,  it  is  stated  that  the  Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Mahatma Gandhi NREGA), 2005, requires that priority shall be given to women in such a  way  that  at  least  one-third  of  the  beneficiaries  shall  be  women who  have  registered  and  requested  for  work.  Further,  in  case  of individual  work,  women  headed  rural  household  is  one  of  the categories which shall be given priority.

The rate  of  participation  of  women  (percentage  of  women  persondays out of total in percentage) in Mahatma Gandhi NREGS during the last three financial years and current financial year 2024-25 (as on 30.01.2025) is given below:

| Financial Year               |   2021-22 |   2022-23 |   2023-24 |   2024-25 |
|------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| Women participation rate (%) |     54.82 |     57.47 |      58.9 |     57.99 |

(As per NREGASoft)

(c): Mahatma Gandhi National Rural  Employment  Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS) provides for 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.  Further,  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.

As per Section 3 (4) of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee  Act,  2005,  the  State  Governments  may  make  provision

for  providing  additional  days  of  employment  beyond  the  period guaranteed under the Act from their own funds.

With regard to increase in wage rate, it is stated that Section 6(1) of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Mahatma Gandhi NREGA), 2005, provides that the Central Government may, by notification, specify the wage rate for unskilled work for its beneficiaries. Accordingly, the Ministry of Rural Development notifies Mahatma Gandhi NREGA wage rate for every financial year for States/UTs. To compensate the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA workers against inflation, the Ministry of Rural Development revises  the  wage  rate  every  financial  year  based  on  change  in Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labour (CPI-AL).

In FY 2024-25, there is an average increase of around 7% in notified wage  rate  compared  to  the  FY  2023-24  under  Mahatma  Gandhi NREGS.

(d): In so far as Ministry of Rural Development is concerned, it is implementing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee  Scheme  (Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS)  which  is  a  demanddriven wage employment Scheme which stipulates for 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 details of the percentage  of beneficiaries from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes communities  provided  employment  under  Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS during the last three financial years and current financial Year 202425 (as on 30.01.2025) are given below:

| Financial year             | %age of Persondays generated   | %age of Persondays generated   |
|----------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
| Financial year             | SCs                            | STs                            |
| 2021-22                    | 19.17%                         | 18.33%                         |
| 2022-23                    | 19.55%                         | 18.02%                         |
| 2023-24                    | 19.18%                         | 17.61%                         |
| 2024-25 (as on 30.01.2025) | 19.00%                         | 17.81%                         |

(as per NREGSASoft)

Annexure

Annexure  referred  to  in  reply  to  part  (a)  of  Lok  Sabha  Unstarred question no. 452 dated 04.02.2025.

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| SI.                                                                                                                       | Name of the                                                                                                               | Annual Plan 2022-23                                                                                                       | Annual Plan 2022-23                                                                                                       | Annual Plan 2023-24                                                                                                       | Annual Plan 2023-24                                                                                                       | Annual Plan 2024-25                                                                                                       |
| No.                                                                                                                       | Scheme                                                                                                                    | B.E.                                                                                                                      | R.E.                                                                                                                      | B.E.                                                                                                                      | R.E.                                                                                                                      | B.E.                                                                                                                      |
| 1                                                                                                                         | 2                                                                                                                         | 3                                                                                                                         | 4                                                                                                                         | 6                                                                                                                         | 7                                                                                                                         | 9                                                                                                                         |
| 1                                                                                                                         | Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee                                                                        | 73000                                                                                                                     | 90955.77                                                                                                                  | 60000                                                                                                                     | 86000                                                                                                                     | 86000                                                                                                                     |
| 2                                                                                                                         | Scheme National Rural Livelihood Mission- Aajeevika                                                                       | 13336.42                                                                                                                  | 11776.01                                                                                                                  | 14129.17                                                                                                                  | 14129.1 7                                                                                                                 | 15047                                                                                                                     |
| 3                                                                                                                         | Pradhan MantriAwaasY ojana                                                                                                | 20000                                                                                                                     | 48422                                                                                                                     | 54487                                                                                                                     | 32000.0 1                                                                                                                 | 54500.14                                                                                                                  |
| 4                                                                                                                         | Pradhan Mantri Gram SadakYojana                                                                                           | 19000                                                                                                                     | 19000                                                                                                                     | 19000                                                                                                                     | 17000                                                                                                                     | 19000                                                                                                                     |
| 5                                                                                                                         | National Social Assistance Programme                                                                                      | 9652.31                                                                                                                   | 9652                                                                                                                      | 9636.32                                                                                                                   | 9652                                                                                                                      | 9652                                                                                                                      |
| 6                                                                                                                         | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee RURBAN Mission*                                                                                   | 550                                                                                                                       | 988.91                                                                                                                    | 0                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                         |

*No allocation is being made for this scheme since FY 2023-24.

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