Rajasthan, Assam to Telangana, states write to Modi govt seeking more work days under MGNREGS

New Delhi: Several state governments have written to the Ministry of Rural Development seeking an increase in the number of work days they can award under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), ThePrint has learnt...

The request, which comes six months into the current financial year, was made since many states have either already exceeded or sanctioned over 90 percent of their projected person days, or work days, under the programme, said sources in the ministry..

For instance, the Congress-led Rajasthan government has written to the rural development ministry to increase the labour budget as the state has crossed the 20 crore person days limit recently, a senior state government official privy to the development told ThePrint...

The central government approved 34 crore person days for FY 2022-23, but the state awarded 35.7 crore person days of work, the portal shows.. Similarly, the BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh has sanctioned 21.46 crore person days till 9 October as against the sanctioned labour budget of 21 crore..

But it usually gets approved after a demand is raised by the state, the official said.. States like Tamil Nadu and Tripura have also surpassed the number of sanctioned person days of 28 crore and 2.5 crore respectively, the NREGA portal shows.. The Telangana government has also written to the rural development ministry, a senior state government official said.As against approved 9 crore person days, we have already sanctioned over 8.15 crore..

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