Lok Sabha Question No. 2037 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-11
Subject: MGNREGS in Assam
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Joyanta Basumatary

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2037 ANSWERED ON 11/03/2025

## MGNREGS IN ASSAM

## 2037. SHRI JOYANTA BASUMATARY:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the  details  of  fund  allocated  and  sanctioned  for  the  State  of Assam  under  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) during the last three years;
- (b) whether  the  Government  has  any  plan  to  increase  the  fund allotted to State of Assam under MGNREGS;
- (c) whether the Government has received any demand from State of Assam to increase their MGNREGS funds;
- (d) the time by which the Government intends to pay all pending wages and material dues toAssam; and
- (e) the details of measures taken by the Government to properly implement MGNREGS?

## ANSWER

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

(a)to(d):      Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee Scheme  (Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS)  is  a  demand  driven  wage employment scheme. There is no State/UT-wise allocation of funds under  Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS.  Details  of  funds  released  to  the State  of  Assam  under  Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS  in  the  last  three financial years from 2021-22 to 2023-24 are given below:

| Financial Years                                            | 2021-22 2022-23          | 2023-24   |
|------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------|-----------|
| Central fund released to the State of Assam (Rs. in crore) | 2,220.262,052.342,221.38 |           |

Under  Mahatma  Gandhi  Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS,  wage  payments are directly credited by the Central Government to the account of beneficiaries through the Direct Benefit Transfer protocol.

With  regard  to  material  components,  States/UTs  furnish  funds release proposals to the Government of India. The Central Government  releases funds periodically in two tranches with each tranche consisting of one or more installments, keeping in view the 'agreed  to'  Labour  Budget,  demand  for  works,  opening  balance, pace of utilization of funds, pending liabilities, overall performance and subject to submission of relevant documents by the States/UTs.

Fund release to the States/UTs is a continuous process and Central Government is committed in making funds available to States/UTs for the implementation of the Scheme as per the demand for work on the ground.

In the current financial year 2024-25 (as on 27.02.2025) an amount of Rs. 1925.67 crore has been released to the State of Assam, which includes Rs. 366.82 crore for Material and Administrative components under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS.

- (e): The Ministry regularly reviews the performance of the implementation  of  Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS  in  States/UTs  through various  forums  viz.,  Mid-Term  Review,  Labour  Budget  meetings, Labour Budget Revision meetings, Common  Review  Missions, Programme Review Committee meetings, Monthly Review meeting and Central Employment Guarantee Council meetings. Further, the State  Employment  Guarantee  Councils  (CEGC)  also  periodically monitor the implementation of the Scheme at state level.

Ministry of Rural Development has also taken the following steps for ensuring efficient implementation of the scheme  as per the provisions of the act as well as the guidelines issued from time to time:-

- 1.
- Conduct of Social audit at Gram Panchayat level
2. Grievance Redressal Mechanisms through appointment of Ombudspersons.
3. Monitoring by National Level Monitors and Central Teams
4. Conduct of Internal Audit
- 5.
- Monitoring through use of Area Officers App
6. Use  of National Mobile Monitoring System(NMMS) for capturing of attendance

7. JANMANREGA App for seeking citizen feedback and information

Some  of  the  technological  interventions  that  have  been  made  for effective   implementation of the scheme are given below :

1. Yuktdhara: To simplify the GIS based planning at Gram Panchayatlevel, Yuktdhara, a Geospatial planning portal is developed in collaboration with ISRO-NRSC.
2. SECURE - Software for Estimate Calculation for using Rural Rates for Employment: Application is being used for estimate calculation of works to be undertaken under the scheme.
3. GeoMGNREGA: the App has been developed to track the creation of assets by geotagging it, at 'Before', 'During' and 'After' stages of the asset creation. So far, a total of 6.26 crore assets have been geotagged.
4.  Direct  Benefit  Transfer  (DBT):  To  bring  in  more  transparency  in the  system  and  minimize  leakages,  Direct  Benefit  Transfer  (DBT) system in wage payment has been adopted. Under the programme, more  than  99%  of  payments  of  wages  are  electronically  credited into the accounts of the workers through DBT system.
5.  Aadhaar  Payment  Bridge  System: Wage  payments  are  made through Aadhaar Payment Bridge System into the accounts of the beneficiaries following the DBT protocol. Against the total of 13.52 crore active workers, Aadhaar of 13.45 crore active workers have been seeded.

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