Key Points
The government has hiked wage rates for rural jobs with Haryana state seeing the highest wage rate of 357 per day..
The new wage rates will come into effect from April 1, 2023..
The wage revision was done under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme 2005 of section 6(1)..
Meanwhile, in percentage terms, Rajasthan recorded the highest wage hike to 255 per day --- compared to 231 per day in the fiscal FY23..
MNREGA is a demand driven wage employment Scheme which provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work..
