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New Delhi: At 58.8 percent, womens participation in the Centres flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) in 2023-24 is the highest in the past decade, with several states such as Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha, Punjab, Meghalaya reporting a significant increase, shows latest data available on rural development ministrys portal...
This gradual increase in womens participation under MGNREGS is due to a host of reasons ranging from some states giving incentives for women workers, appointment of women mates (who supervise work at MGNREGS sites and mark attendance of workers), involvement of women self help groups (SHGs) in rural jobs, etc...
In the Northeast, Meghalaya saw a 5.78 percentage point increase in the number of women person days in 2023-24 (57.3 percent) compared to 2022-23 (51.52 percent), while BJP-ruled states such as Gujarat and Assam saw a 3.51 percentage point and 3.06 percentage point increase respectively...
In Odisha, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Assam where there is high demand for work under MGNREGS the increase in womens participation from 2022-23 to 2023-24 ranged between 0.05 to over 2 percentage points, according to the ministry data...
In 2023-24, these states and UT saw a marginal increase or decline in the percentage of women workers, but they continue to have a large number of women working under the rural employment scheme...
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