The demand for jobs underneath the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme (MG-NREGS), each on the family in addition to the person stage, continued to stay elevated in contrast with the pre-pandemic days, indicating pressure on rural livelihoods.
The MG-NREGS dashboard, maintained by the agricultural improvement ministry, confirmed practically 31.7 million households and 43.2 million individuals had been on the lookout for work in June this 12 months, increased from 25.4 million and 35.3 million respectively, over the identical month in 2019-20, the 12 months earlier than the pandemic hit the nation.
During the identical month in FY21 and FY22, there have been increased demand for work from each households and people in contrast with June FY23, however these had been the years which noticed big reverse migration that led to the spike in demand for job underneath the agricultural job assure scheme.
Commenting on the elevated demand, labour economist KR Shyam Sundar mentioned, “The spike in the demand for work under MG-NREGS in the recent quarter shows that rural labour market in in distress. Further demand would depend on farm employment and early monsoon deficit witnessed unless reversed will lead to further spikes in MG-NREGS jobs.”
MG-NREGS is a demand-driven scheme for the enhancement of livelihood safety of the households in rural areas by offering at the very least 100 days of assured wage employment to each family whose grownup members volunteer to do unskilled handbook work in each monetary 12 months. Rather less than 0.1 million family has accomplished 100 days of labor up to now within the present fiscal.
Person days of labor technology underneath the scheme in June was 261 million, which in fact is topic to upward revision, since knowledge collation takes time. Overall, as on July 1, just a little over 982-million particular person days of labor has been created within the present fiscal up to now. In your entire FY22, 3.63-billion particular person days of labor was generated underneath MG-NREGS.
The authorities has allotted Rs 73,000 crore within the Budget for 2022-23 for MG-NREGS. In FY22, just a little over Rs 1 trillion was spent underneath the scheme.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”