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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MGNREGS hits record with 3.1 crore families seeking work in May. It’s a cry for help from Bharat -Sayantan Bera and Nikhil Rampal

MGNREGS hits record with 3.1 crore families seeking work in May. It’s a cry for help from Bharat -Sayantan Bera and Nikhil Rampal

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published Published on Jun 18, 2022   modified Modified on Jun 19, 2022

-ThePrint.in

From a record-breaking number of households demanding work under the MGNREGS to the stark decline in consumption and FMCG sales — all signs point to a rural livelihood crisis.

New Delhi: Consider a job offer where day wages are less than both statutory minimum wages and market wages for unskilled workers. The work may last for about 10 days at a time, and payments may take more than two weeks, at best, to be credited to bank accounts.

In the punishing heat of summer, one has to work for six to eight hours a day — laying roads or digging a reservoir, gruelling earthwork with a spade or a hoe. What are the chances, hundreds of thousands will queue up for such a job? And what does it say when millions do exactly that?

Launched in 2006 as a social safety net programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or MGNREGS — which guarantees 100 days of paid work to rural families — created a record of sorts this May.

The number of households demanding work shot up to 3.07 crore — the highest since the inception of the scheme.

Work demanded by households last month was also a staggering 43 per cent higher than the five-year average during the pre-pandemic years (2015-2019).

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ThePrint.in, 18 June, 2022, https://theprint.in/economy/mgnregs-hits-record-with-3-1-crore-families-seeking-work-in-may-its-a-cry-for-help-from-bharat/1000424/


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