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New Delhi: Poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh are among the five states that have reported the greatest number of workers names being deleted from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) list in the first six months of this fiscal, according to a report by non-profit LibTech India...
In its report titled MGNREGS Implementation State: April-September 2023, released Saturday, the organisation found that net deletion of 80 lakh workers across India took place between April and September 2023...
Net deletion is calculated based on the total number of workers deleted and new workers added during a period...
In Madhya Pradesh among the few states with close to 1.7 crore registered workers the net deletion was 10.92 lakh workers (15.98 lakh deleted and 5.05 lakh added)...
The biggest drops (in demand for work) were observed in West Bengal (99.5 per cent), Himachal Pradesh (28.6 per cent), and Madhya Pradesh (25.2 per cent), while Chhattisgarh (106.4 per cent), Jharkhand (75.6 per cent) and Tamil Nadu (67.4 per cent) experienced the highest rise, report said.. Gangaram Paikra, president of Chaupal (Chaupal Gramin Vikas Prashikshan Evam Shodh Sansthan), a non-profit organisation that works in Chhattisgarh, said: There can be multiple reasons for the increase in person-days generated in the state..
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