{"id":149344,"date":"2021-11-27T20:50:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=149344"},"modified":"2021-11-29T10:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T05:23:55","slug":"shore-in-the-lifeline-about-mgnrega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/shore-in-the-lifeline-about-mgnrega\/","title":{"rendered":"Shore in the lifeline &#8211; About MGNREGA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Government has recently announced 10,000 crore additional funds to supplement the needs of the state under MGNREGA. However, 24 states and UT&#8217;s still show a negative net balance.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mgnrega-issues-and-significance-explained-pointwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MGNREGA: Issues and Significance \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><strong>What are the reasons behind the fund crunch under MGNREGA?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>-High demand because of the extended effects of pandemics in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>-Low budget allocation for the MGNREGA scheme. In the case of 2021-22, the total\u00a0allocations were \u20b973,000 crores, much lower than the \u20b91,11,500 crore as revised estimates in expenditure in 2020-21.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 95.6364%; height: 46px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-long-road-to-timely-mgnrega-payments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What are the reasons for the delayed payments of MGNREGA wages?<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><strong>What is the impact?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>According to the activists, delayed payment led to increase in an unmet demand of 20% in Bihar, Telangana and Gujarat.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-money-left-in-mgnrega-coffers-21-states-in-the-red\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is the impact of low fund allocation to MGNREGA?<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><strong>What should be the way forward?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Considering MGNREGA as the lifeline of rural communities, Government should make up the shortfalls quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article &#8220;<strong>Shore in the lifeline&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>published in\u00a0<strong>The Hindu\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>27th November 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Government has recently announced 10,000 crore additional funds to supplement the needs of the state under MGNREGA. However, 24 states and UT&#8217;s still show a negative net balance. Also read:\u00a0MGNREGA: Issues and Significance \u2013 Explained, pointwise What are the reasons behind the fund crunch under MGNREGA? -High demand because of the extended effects of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/shore-in-the-lifeline-about-mgnrega\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shore in the lifeline &#8211; About MGNREGA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-149344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704885280},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}