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PUDUCHERRY: The Union government released Rs 1.1 In a written reply to the queries raised by Villupuram MP D Ravikumar, the minister furnished state-wise statistics on the fund released for the fiscal year 2020-21 and person-days generated until July 16 for the fiscal year 2021-22 under MGNREGA. Tamil Nadu, which received Rs 8,941 crore in the last fiscal, stood sixth on the list of states that received the highest central funding. Uttar Pradesh topped the list with Rs 12,257 crore followed by West Bengal (Rs 10,993 crore), Andhra Pradesh (Rs 10,365 crore), Madhya Pradesh (Rs 9,225 crore) and Rajasthan (Rs 9,129 crore). The ministry has proposed to generate 278.3 crore person-days for the current fiscal. As of July 16, a total of 120.5 crore person-days have been generated in the current fiscal. Andhra Pradesh topped the list with 18.4 crore person-days followed by Madhya Pradesh (13.7 crore), Telangana (9.8 crore), Rajasthan (8.6 crore), West Bengal (8.3 crore) and Odisha (8 crore). Since MGNREGA is a 'demand-driven' programme, the The minister said the ministry had taken adequate steps to strengthen transparency and accountability such as geo-tagging of assets, direct benefit transfer, The ministry has also advised the states and Union territories to set up independent social audit units, train village resource persons and hold social audits periodically. "The responsibility of implementation of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA is vested with states/UTs. The ministry regularly revie...

MGNREGS made up for up to 80% income loss during pandemic: study The study conducted by Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University also said that 39% of the surveyed households did not get a single day of work in the COVID-19 year October 14, 2022 03:10 am | Updated 03:10 am IST - New Delhi: In a first, a study providing empirical evidence conducted on the impact of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) during the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that the wages earned under the Act helped compensating somewhere between 20% and 80% of the income loss incurred because of the lockdown. The report also said that around 39% all job card-holding households interested in working under the MGNREGA did not get a single day of work in the COVID year of 2020-21. As of 2022-23, there are 15.4 crore active workers under the MGNREGA. The study titled “Employment guarantee during COVID-19 — The Role of MGNREGA in the year after the 2020 lockdown” conducted by Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, collaborative Research and Dissemination (CORD), Samaj Pragati Sahyog and NREGA consortium was released on Thursday. The study was aimed at determining the extent to which working in the programme provided income support to vulnerable households during the pandemic. The team surveyed four States — Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The annual income of the households in these eight blocks pre-COVID ranged between ₹33...