MGNREGA job demand declines this year
The Government today informed that there has been a decline in total number of households which demanded employment under MGNREGA in 2011-12 compared to 2010-11. Replying to a written question in the Rajya Sabha today, the Union Minister of State for Rural Development Shri Pradeep Jain said that the data reported for States for 2011-12 is till 27.04.2012 and the data from the States of Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland are yet to be fully updated and uploaded. He said, the demand for employment also varies from State to State and has shown increase in several States like Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal in 2011-12. Number of Households which demanded employment under MGNREGA in 2010-11 was 5,57,56,087, while in 2011-12 it was 5,00,85,526.
MGNREGA provides a legal guarantee for up to 100 days of wage employment to every household in a financial year for doing unskilled manual work, on demand to be made following a prescribed process. Shri Jain informed that demand for employment under MGNREGA is dependent upon several external factors including availability of alternate employment opportunities.
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