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COVID-19 Lockdown: In April, MGNREGA Work Crashed to Lowest in 7 Years -Kabir Agarwal

-TheWire.in

In the month of April 2020, 34 lakh households were provided work compared to 1.7 crore in April of 2019, a decline of 86%.

New Delhi: Only 20% of the number of people who were provided work in April 2019 were employed in April 2020 under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), according to official government data.

In the month of April 2020, 34 lakh households were provided work as compared to 1.7 crore in April of 2019, a decline of 86%. In fact, this figure is the lowest for at least the last seven Aprils since 2013 (data for previous years is not available online). It is also the lowest for any month in at least seven years.

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