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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bihar asks Centre to hike its MGNREGA labour budget -Priscilla Jebaraj

Bihar asks Centre to hike its MGNREGA labour budget -Priscilla Jebaraj

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published Published on Nov 2, 2020   modified Modified on Nov 14, 2020

-The Hindu

20% of people demanding work have been denied; even higher on ground, say workers.

Having run through 74% of its labour budget under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) at the halfway point of the year, and expecting the demand to go up still further in a pandemic year, Bihar has asked the Centre for an additional six crore persondays of work to be added to its budget, State Rural Development (RD) Secretary Arvind Kumar Chaudhary told The Hindu.

However, despite the unprecedented increase in employment provided under the scheme this year, the demand is higher still, and at least one in five people who demanded work has not received it. According to workers and activists on the ground, local corruption and fraud means that many more people are being denied MGNREGA work than is reflected in the data, forcing migrants to return to the cities for work.

Bihar’s approved labour budget for 2020-21 is 18 crore persondays of work, but 13.3 crore persondays have already been used up, in providing work to almost 44 lakh people, according to official data. By the time the full figures for October are entered into the official system in a few weeks, the State may well have crossed the 14 crore persondays of work that were provided in the whole of the previous year.

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The Hindu, 2 November, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/bihar-asks-centre-to-hike-its-mgnrega-labour-budget/article33005591.ece


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