Posted On:
15 MAR 2023 5:46PM by PIB Delhi
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS) is a demand driven wage employment Scheme which provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
Details of household availed employment under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS from financial year 2015-16 to 2022-23 (as on 09.03.2023) are given below:
|
Financial Year
|
Households availed employment (in crore)
|
|
2015-16
|
4.81
|
|
2016-17
|
5.12
|
|
2017-18
|
5.12
|
|
2018-19
|
5.27
|
|
2019-20
|
5.48
|
|
2020-21
|
7.55
|
|
2021-22
|
7.25
|
|
2022-23
(as on 09.03.2023)
|
5.97
|
(As per NREGASoft)
This information was given by the Union Minister of State for Rural Development, Sadhvi
Niranjan Jyoti in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
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