{"id":223656,"date":"2023-01-24T19:19:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=223656"},"modified":"2023-02-25T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T06:40:10","slug":"employment-days-under-mahatma-gandhi-national-employment-guarantee-scheme-at-a-five-year-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/employment-days-under-mahatma-gandhi-national-employment-guarantee-scheme-at-a-five-year-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment days under Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme at a five-year low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cEmployment days under Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme at a five-year low\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>23rd January 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The average days of employment provided per household under the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) are at a five-year low for this financial year.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is MGNREGA?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mgnrega-issues-and-significance-explained-pointwise\/#:~:text=must%20be%20resolved.-,About%20MGNREGA,Act%2C%202005%20introduced%20the%20scheme.\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What were the average days of employment under MGNREGA in 2022-23?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The average days of employment provided per household under MGNREGA was 42 days in 2022-23 while it was 50 days in 2021-22, 52 days in 2020-21, 48 days in 2019-20 and 51 days in 2018-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why is there a decline in employment under MGNREGA?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Activists allege that the MGNREGA has been plagued by systemic problems that are disincentivizing participation. These problems are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 Choking of funds:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This has led to suppression of work demand and delays in wage payments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 Technical complexities:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The introduction of unnecessary technical complexities like an app for attendance at worksites has caused more hardships for workers who will be more dissuaded going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 States dismal policies:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> With less than two-months for the financial year to close, there are at least nine States and union territories which have utilised less than 70% of projected person days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 Budgetary cuts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: With low utilisation, financial outlay for the underperforming States is expected to further shrink in the upcoming financial year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cEmployment days under Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme at a five-year low\u201d published in The Hindu on 23rd January 2023. What is the News? The average days of employment provided per household under the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) are at a five-year low&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/employment-days-under-mahatma-gandhi-national-employment-guarantee-scheme-at-a-five-year-low\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Employment days under Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme at a five-year low<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-223656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704836919},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223656","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}