Pandemic despatched migrants house, document 11 crore turned to rural job scheme

As tens of 1000’s of migrants returned to their villages following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and the nationwide lockdown that adopted final 12 months, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) emerged as a security web for labourers in rural areas.
Over 11 crore individuals labored below the scheme in the course of the monetary 12 months 2020-21 — the primary time since its inception in 2006-07 that the MGNREGS numbers crossed the 11-crore mark in a 12 months.
Data accessible on April 1 present that 11.17 crore people availed the scheme in 2020-21, up 41.75 per cent from 7.88 crore in 2019-20.
The whole variety of individuals, who availed the scheme, had been within the vary of 6.21-7.88 crore between 2013-14 and 2019-20 — a interval for which comparable information is on the market. But within the wake of job losses in the course of the pandemic, an extra 3 crore plus individuals turned to the agricultural job scheme.
According to the information, a document excessive of seven.54 crore rural households labored below the MGNREGS throughout 2020-21 — 37.59 per cent greater than 5.48 crore in 2019-20. The earlier excessive of 5.5 crore was recorded in 2010-11.

The numbers for people and households are more likely to be revised upward as soon as the muster roll information for the final week of March will get up to date.
Under the MGNREGS, each rural family, whose grownup member volunteers to do unskilled handbook work, is entitled to get at the least 100 days of wage employment in a monetary 12 months.

Launched in 200 most backward rural districts of the nation in 2006-07, the scheme was prolonged to an extra 130 districts throughout 2007-08, and to your entire nation 2008-09 onward.
In 2020-21, the variety of households that accomplished 100-day employment additionally reached an all-time excessive of 68.58 lakh, a rise of 68.91 per cent from 40.60 lakh in 2019-20.

The common days of employment offered per family too went up marginally from 48.4 days in 2019-20 to 51.51 days in 2020-21.

In all, 385.89 crore particular person days had been generated in 2020-21, which is 45.43 per cent greater than 265.35 crore in 2019-20.
In the pandemic 12 months, the expenditure on MGNREGS additionally reached a brand new excessive. In 2020-21, the full expenditure was Rs 110,802.05 crore — 62.31 per cent greater than Rs 68,265.97 crore in 2019-20.
As a part of the financial package deal introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government declared extra funding of Rs 40,000 crore for the MGNREGS, over and above the Rs 61,500 crore allotted within the Union Budget 2020-21.