Lok Sabha Question No. 1287 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-03
Subject: Employment under MGNREGS
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri S Venkatesan

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

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1287 ANSWERED ON 03/12/2024

## EMPLOYMENT UNDER MGNREGS

## 1287. SHRI S VENKATESAN:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENTbe pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  is  aware  that  the  year-over-year percentage  figures  for  the  period  November  2022  to  October 2023 and November 2023 to October 2024 for persons sought employment under MGNREGS  of increased and declined respectively; and
- (b) if so, the details thereof and the reasons for decline along with the steps taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## (SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN)

(a)&(b):   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.  The  details  of persons  who  demanded  employment  and  employment  offered  to persons  under  the  Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS  during  the  period  of November  2022  to  October  2023  and  November  2023  to  October 2024 are given at Annexure.

Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS  provides  for  livelihood  security,  i.e. fall  back  option  for  livelihood  for  the  rural  households,  when  no better employment opportunity is available. To generate awareness about  the  provisions  of  the  Scheme  and  to  provide  adequate employment  opportunities to rural  households  under  Mahatma Gandhi  NREGS,  all  States/UTs  have  been  requested  to  (i)  initiate appropriate Information Education and Communication (IEC) campaigns  including  wall  paintings  for  the  wide  dissemination  of the  provisions  of  the  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment Guarantee  Act  (Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGA),  2005  (ii)  expand  scope and coverage of demand registration system to ensure that demand for  work under Mahatma Gandhi NREGA does not go unregistered, (iii) prepare plans in a participatory mode and approve them in the Gram Sabha. (iv) Organization of 'RozgarDiwas'.

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Annexure Annexure referred in reply  to  parts  (a)  &(b)  of  LokSabhaUnstarred

Question No. 1287 dated 03.12.2024.

| Financial Year   | Period   |   Persons demanded employment |   Employment offered to persons | %age offered employment   |
|------------------|----------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------|
|                  | Nov-22   |                      22481220 |                        22450040 | 99.86%                    |
|                  | Dec-22   |                      25918934 |                        25874533 | 99.83%                    |
| 2022-23          | Jan-23   |                      25874990 |                        25819403 | 99.79%                    |
| 2022-23          | Feb-23   |                      26233397 |                        26177134 | 99.79%                    |
|                  | Mar-23   |                      28321500 |                        28229247 | 99.67%                    |
|                  | Apr-23   |                      31764314 |                        31728208 | 99.89%                    |
|                  | May-23   |                      42600575 |                        42551872 | 99.89%                    |
|                  | Jun-23   |                      44180020 |                        44117730 | 99.86%                    |
|                  | Jul-23   |                      29067548 |                        29014058 | 99.82%                    |
|                  | Aug-23   |                      22906939 |                        22853483 | 99.77%                    |
| 2023-24          | Sep-23   |                      22052751 |                        22013238 | 99.82%                    |
|                  | Oct-23   |                      21907370 |                        21879820 | 99.87%                    |
|                  | Nov-23   |                      20933863 |                        20905009 | 99.86%                    |
|                  | Dec-23   |                      24029031 |                        23976180 | 99.78%                    |
|                  | Jan-24   |                      23893491 |                        23843789 | 99.79%                    |
|                  | Feb-24   |                      26192912 |                        26151450 | 99.84%                    |
|                  | Mar-24   |                      23201689 |                        23114694 | 99.63%                    |
| 2024-25          | Apr-24   |                      30179169 |                        30123874 | 99.82%                    |
|                  | May-24   |                      37448566 |                        37392073 | 99.85%                    |
|                  | Jun-24   |                      34220911 |                        34172784 | 99.86%                    |
|                  | Jul-24   |                      22790330 |                        22743403 | 99.79%                    |
|                  | Aug-24   |                      18981093 |                        18944181 | 99.81%                    |
|                  | Sep-24   |                      18933853 |                        18891913 | 99.78%                    |
|                  | Oct-24   |                      19889747 |                        19846149 | 99.78%                    |

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