 "MGNREGS")
India's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) provided more days of work in 2020-21 than in any year since the programme began in 2008. But states are falling short of funds to pay workers.
In these charts, we take a quick look at the current status of the programme:
In 2020-21, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, when disease and related lockdowns decimated businesses and the economy, the programme provided 47% more person-days of work, as compared to 2019-20.
In 2020-21, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, when disease and related lockdowns decimated businesses and the economy, the programme provided 47% more person-days of work, as compared to 2019-20.
About 2.3 billion person-days of work were generated up to November 10, 2021, which is
