Lok Sabha Question No. 2957 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-18
Subject: Creation of Man days under MGNREGS
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Virendra Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2957 ANSWERED ON 18/03/2025

## CREATION OF MAN DAYS UNDER MGNREGS

## 2957. SHRI VIRENDRA SINGH:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has made a provision of 60:40 ratio to make the work of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme  (MGNREGS)  easier, if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the ratio of 60:40 is based on the unit of each work or the work is done on the basis of 60% Kachha and 40% Pakka in the entire district, State and district-wise;
- (c) the number of man days being created under MGNREGS, Statewise;
- (d) the  percentage  decrease  or  increase  in  the  number  of  man days as compared during the last year, State-wise; and
- whether the decrease in percentage has been seen and if so,
- (e) the reasons therefor, State-wise?

## ANSWER

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

(a)&(b): Para 20 of the Schedule-I of  the  Mahatma  Gandhi National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Act,  2005  lays  down  that, 'For all works taken up under the Scheme, by the Gram Panchayat and other Implementing Agencies, the cost of the material component  including  the  wages  of  the  skilled  and  semi-skilled workers shall not exceed forty per cent at the district level.'  The wage  material ratio of 60:40 at the district level has been purposefully mandated  to promote  the creation of productive

assets. As per NREGASoft, the percentage of material expenditure at  the  National  Level  during  the  last  three  financial  years  and current financial year 2024-25 (as on 12.03.2025) is given below:

| Financial Year           |   2024-252023-242022-232021-22 |   2024-252023-242022-232021-22 |   2024-252023-242022-232021-22 |
|--------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
| Material expenditure (%) |                          26.74 |                          26.97 |                          27.19 |

(c)to(e):  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.   It  provides livelihood security, i.e. fall back options for livelihood for the rural households, when no better employment opportunity is available.

State/UT-wise details of person-days generated under the Mahatma Gandhi  NREGS  during  the  financial  year  2023-24  (up  to  February 2024) and the current financial year 2024-25 (up to February 2025), along  with  the  comparative  percentage  increase  or  decrease,  is given at Annexure.

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Annexure referred to in reply to parts (c) to (e) of LokSabhaUnstarred Question No. 2957 dated 18.03.2025.

State/UT-wise  details  of  person-days  generated  under  the  Mahatma  Gandhi NREGS  during  the  financial  year  2023-24  (up  to  February  2024)  and  the current financial year 2024-25 (up to February 2025), along with the comparative percentage increase or decrease.

|                                             |                                             | Persondays generated (in lakh)   | Persondays generated (in lakh)   | Persondays generated (in lakh)   |
|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| Sl. No.                                     | State/UTs                                   | FY 2024-25, upto February 2025   | FY 2023-24, upto February 2024   | %age increase/decrease           |
| 1Andhra Pradesh                             | 1Andhra Pradesh                             | 2281.58                          | 2401.97                          | -5.01%                           |
| 2Arunachal Pradesh                          | 2Arunachal Pradesh                          | 182.91                           | 143.82                           | 27.17%                           |
| 3Assam                                      | 3Assam                                      | 662.69                           | 831.50                           | -20.30%                          |
| 4Bihar                                      | 4Bihar                                      | 2286.69                          | 2041.09                          | 12.03%                           |
| 5Chhattisgarh                               | 5Chhattisgarh                               | 1234.00                          | 1151.02                          | 7.21%                            |
| 6Goa                                        | 6Goa                                        | 0.68                             | 0.38                             | 79.23%                           |
| 7Gujarat                                    | 7Gujarat                                    | 407.00                           | 473.35                           | -14.02%                          |
| 8Haryana                                    | 8Haryana                                    | 107.77                           | 113.13                           | -4.74%                           |
| 9Himachal Pradesh                           | 9Himachal Pradesh                           | 370.95                           | 310.42                           | 19.50%                           |
| 10Jammu and Kashmir                         | 10Jammu and Kashmir                         | 359.99                           | 338.42                           | 6.37%                            |
| 11Jharkhand                                 | 11Jharkhand                                 | 933.66                           | 1036.08                          | -9.89%                           |
| 12Karnataka                                 | 12Karnataka                                 | 1197.63                          | 1314.15                          | -8.87%                           |
| 13Kerala                                    | 13Kerala                                    | 845.77                           | 945.95                           | -10.59%                          |
| 14Ladakh                                    | 14Ladakh                                    | 21.87                            | 19.64                            | 11.38%                           |
| 15Madhya Pradesh                            | 15Madhya Pradesh                            | 1764.31                          | 1891.76                          | -6.74%                           |
| 16Maharashtra                               | 16Maharashtra                               | 1463.99                          | 1015.20                          | 44.21%                           |
| 17Manipur                                   | 17Manipur                                   | 210.80                           | 116.07                           | 81.61%                           |
| 18Meghalaya                                 | 18Meghalaya                                 | 271.50                           | 299.63                           | -9.39%                           |
| 19Mizoram                                   | 19Mizoram                                   | 189.24                           | 193.21                           | -2.05%                           |
| 20Nagaland                                  | 20Nagaland                                  | 78.78                            | 177.45                           | -55.60%                          |
| 21Odisha                                    | 21Odisha                                    | 1073.21                          | 1766.33                          | -39.24%                          |
| 22Punjab                                    | 22Punjab                                    | 297.53                           | 336.45                           | -11.57%                          |
| 23Rajasthan                                 | 23Rajasthan                                 | 2977.73                          | 3485.89                          | -14.58%                          |
| 24Sikkim                                    | 24Sikkim                                    | 31.06                            | 33.08                            | -6.11%                           |
| 25Tamil Nadu                                | 25Tamil Nadu                                | 2992.75                          | 4083.45                          | -26.71%                          |
| 26Telangana                                 | 26Telangana                                 | 1102.70                          | 1048.33                          | 5.19%                            |
| 27Tripura                                   | 27Tripura                                   | 342.68                           | 361.06                           | -5.09%                           |
| 28Uttar Pradesh                             | 28Uttar Pradesh                             | 3220.09                          | 3312.31                          | -2.78%                           |
| 29Uttarakhand                               | 29Uttarakhand                               | 179.07                           | 183.29                           | -2.30%                           |
| 30West Bengal                               | 30West Bengal                               | 0.00                             | 1.65                             | -100.00%                         |
| 31Andaman and Nicobar                       | 31Andaman and Nicobar                       | 0.75                             | 1.04                             | -27.88%                          |
| 32 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 32 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 2.69                             | 0.26                             | 948.75%                          |
| 33Lakshadweep                               | 33Lakshadweep                               | 0.00                             | 0.04                             | -100.00%                         |
| 34Puducherry                                | 34Puducherry                                | 9.78                             | 20.98                            | -53.37%                          |
| Total                                       | Total                                       | 27101.84                         | 29448.40                         | -7.97%                           |

(As per NREGASoft)

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