Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 61624,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-IdeasforIndia.com&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &amp;nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;IdeasforIndia.com, 15 December, 2021, https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 61624,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;MGNREGS,MGNREGA,Ashwini Kulkarni,Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,Pending Wages,Unpaid Wages&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;-IdeasforIndia.com

The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher....&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-IdeasforIndia.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &amp;nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot; title=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 61624,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-IdeasforIndia.com&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &amp;nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;IdeasforIndia.com, 15 December, 2021, https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 61624
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;MGNREGS,MGNREGA,Ashwini Kulkarni,Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,Pending Wages,Unpaid Wages&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;-IdeasforIndia.com

The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher....&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-IdeasforIndia.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &amp;nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot; title=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="-IdeasforIndia.com

The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher...."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p style="text-align:justify">-IdeasforIndia.com</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.</p><p style="text-align:justify">MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&nbsp;<br />The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html" title="https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html">click here</a> to read more.</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 61624,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-IdeasforIndia.com&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &amp;nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;IdeasforIndia.com, 15 December, 2021, https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 61624,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;MGNREGS,MGNREGA,Ashwini Kulkarni,Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,Pending Wages,Unpaid Wages&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;-IdeasforIndia.com

The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher....&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-IdeasforIndia.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &amp;nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot; title=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 61624,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-IdeasforIndia.com&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &amp;nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;IdeasforIndia.com, 15 December, 2021, https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 61624
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;MGNREGS,MGNREGA,Ashwini Kulkarni,Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,Pending Wages,Unpaid Wages&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;-IdeasforIndia.com

The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher....&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-IdeasforIndia.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &amp;nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot; title=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="-IdeasforIndia.com

The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher...."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p style="text-align:justify">-IdeasforIndia.com</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.</p><p style="text-align:justify">MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&nbsp;<br />The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html" title="https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html">click here</a> to read more.</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67eef2a7ee687-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 61624,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-IdeasforIndia.com&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &amp;nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;IdeasforIndia.com, 15 December, 2021, https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 61624,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;MGNREGS,MGNREGA,Ashwini Kulkarni,Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,Pending Wages,Unpaid Wages&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;-IdeasforIndia.com

The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher....&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-IdeasforIndia.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &amp;nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot; title=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 61624,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-IdeasforIndia.com&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &amp;nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;IdeasforIndia.com, 15 December, 2021, https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 61624
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;MGNREGS,MGNREGA,Ashwini Kulkarni,Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,Pending Wages,Unpaid Wages&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;-IdeasforIndia.com

The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher....&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-IdeasforIndia.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &amp;nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot; title=&quot;https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="-IdeasforIndia.com

The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher...."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p style="text-align:justify">-IdeasforIndia.com</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.</p><p style="text-align:justify">MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&nbsp;<br />The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html" title="https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html">click here</a> to read more.</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 61624,
		'title' => 'MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni',
		'subheading' => null,
		'description' => '<p style="text-align:justify">-IdeasforIndia.com</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&nbsp;<br />
The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html">click here</a> to read more.</p>
',
		'credit_writer' => 'IdeasforIndia.com, 15 December, 2021, https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni',
		'meta_title' => '',
		'meta_keywords' => '',
		'meta_description' => '',
		'noindex' => (int) 1,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => null,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 61624,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni',
	'metaKeywords' => 'MGNREGS,MGNREGA,Ashwini Kulkarni,Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,Pending Wages,Unpaid Wages',
	'metaDesc' => '-IdeasforIndia.com

The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher....',
	'disp' => '<p style="text-align:justify">-IdeasforIndia.com</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.</p><p style="text-align:justify">MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&nbsp;<br />The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html" title="https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html">click here</a> to read more.</p>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 61624,
	'title' => 'MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni',
	'subheading' => null,
	'description' => '<p style="text-align:justify">-IdeasforIndia.com</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&nbsp;<br />
The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html">click here</a> to read more.</p>
',
	'credit_writer' => 'IdeasforIndia.com, 15 December, 2021, https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee-ashwini-kulkarni',
	'meta_title' => '',
	'meta_keywords' => '',
	'meta_description' => '',
	'noindex' => (int) 1,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => null,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 61624
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni'
$metaKeywords = 'MGNREGS,MGNREGA,Ashwini Kulkarni,Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,Pending Wages,Unpaid Wages'
$metaDesc = '-IdeasforIndia.com

The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher....'
$disp = '<p style="text-align:justify">-IdeasforIndia.com</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee.</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater.</p><p style="text-align:justify">MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement&nbsp;<br />The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year. &nbsp;In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html" title="https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/mnrega-funds-allocation-honouring-the-work-on-demand-guarantee.html">click here</a> to read more.</p>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni

-IdeasforIndia.com The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee. For over a month, national and local media have been covering the issue of a fund shortage in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). There are a host of pending payments pertaining to MNREGA work as the states do not have adequate funds for this purpose. To deal with the fund shortage, the central government allocated an additional Rs. 10,000 crore to the budgeted amount for MNREGA. Recent reports have also indicated that an additional Rs. 25,000 crore is being sought by the Centre as part of the supplementary budget.  In this post, I contend that the amount of additional funds demanded are ad hoc, and simple arithmetic based on official numbers from the MNREGA website shows that the minimum additional funds required in FY2021-22 is in fact far greater. MNREGA expenditures: Estimating fund requirement  The total MNREGA expenditure as on 3 December 2021 is Rs. 78,057.78 crore and the Centre has released Rs. 69,799.35 crore till date. Hence, the expenditure so far, has already surpassed the allocations made in the 2021-22 Union Budget.  Considering the expenditure so far, what could the requirements be for the remaining financial year? I provide some estimates below. I look at the potential funds needed based on three indicators, number of households who are likely to seek MNREGA work in the coming months, average number of person-days per household, and the possibility of higher person-days being demanded in the last four months of FY2021-22.  The average person-days generated per household, that has participated in MNREGA work in the last four years (FY2017-18 to FY2020-21), has been in the range of 46 to 52 person-days per year, and across the four years, the average person-days per household is 48 days per year.  In FY2021-22, Rs. 6.25 crore households have clocked an average of 40 days of MNREGA work, each. If these same households were to reach the calculated annual average of 48 days, an additional Rs. 10,450 crore would be required in wage payments itself, with an average of Rs. 209 paid in wages per day per person.  However, the number of households participating in MNREGA work would likely increase in coming months. In the last four years, the highest number of participating households in a single year was 7.55 crore. Considering the difference between this maximum and the households that have participated in MNREGA so far in FY2021-22 (1.3 crore households), and the estimates above, the additional amount required in wage payments would be Rs. 13,041 crore. Please click here to read more.