{"id":11873,"date":"2021-04-03T12:16:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=11873"},"modified":"2021-04-03T12:16:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:46:43","slug":"pandemic-sent-migrants-home-mgnregs-scheme-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/pandemic-sent-migrants-home-mgnregs-scheme-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"PANDEMIC SENT MIGRANTS HOME: MGNREGS SCHEME ANALYSIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11874 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sarguja-cg-RAGHAV-PURI-1584756311-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sarguja-cg-RAGHAV-PURI-1584756311-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sarguja-cg-RAGHAV-PURI-1584756311-1024x680.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sarguja-cg-RAGHAV-PURI-1584756311-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sarguja-cg-RAGHAV-PURI-1584756311-768x510.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sarguja-cg-RAGHAV-PURI-1584756311-120x80.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sarguja-cg-RAGHAV-PURI-1584756311.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As tens of thousands of migrants returned to their villages following the outbreak of the\u00a0Covid-19\u00a0pandemic\u00a0and the national lockdown that followed last year, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) emerged as a safety net for labourers in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>Over 11 crore people worked under the scheme during the financial year 2020-21 \u2014 the first time since its inception in 2006-07 that the MGNREGS numbers crossed the 11-crore mark in a year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Data available on April 1 show that 11.17 crore individuals availed the scheme in 2020-21, up 41.75 per cent from 7.88 crore in 2019-20.<\/li>\n<li>The total number of people, who availed the scheme, had been in the range of 6.21-7.88 crore between 2013-14 and 2019-20 \u2014 a period for which comparable data is available. But in the wake of job losses during the pandemic, an additional 3 crore plus people turned to the rural job scheme.<\/li>\n<li>According to the data, a record high of 7.54 crore rural households worked under the MGNREGS during 2020-21 \u2014 37.59 per cent higher than 5.48 crore in 2019-20. The previous high of 5.5 crore was recorded in 2010-11.<\/li>\n<li>The numbers for individuals and households are likely to be revised upward once the muster roll data for the last week of March gets updated.<\/li>\n<li>Under the MGNREGS, every rural household, whose adult member volunteers to do unskilled manual work, is entitled to get at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year.<\/li>\n<li>Launched in 200 most backward rural districts of the country in 2006-07, the scheme was extended to an additional 130 districts during 2007-08, and to the entire country 2008-09 onward.<\/li>\n<li>In 2020-21, the number of households that completed 100-day employment also reached an all-time high of 68.58 lakh, an increase of 68.91 per cent from 40.60 lakh in 2019-20.<\/li>\n<li>The average days of employment provided per household too went up marginally from 48.4 days in 2019-20 to 51.51 days in 2020-21.<\/li>\n<li>In all, 385.89 crore person days were generated in 2020-21, which is 45.43 per cent higher than 265.35 crore in 2019-20.<\/li>\n<li>In the pandemic year, the expenditure on MGNREGS also reached a new high. In 2020-21, the total expenditure was Rs 110,802.05 crore \u2014 62.31 per cent higher than Rs 68,265.97 crore in 2019-20.<\/li>\n<li>As part of the economic package announced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the government declared additional funding of Rs 40,000 crore for the MGNREGS, over and above the Rs 61,500 crore allocated in the Union Budget 2020-21.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why in news? 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