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Demand for work under the government's flagship rural job guarantee scheme fell for a seventh straight month through May, indicating stronger economic conditions at the start of the new financial year...
Work demand under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) drops when better-paying employment opportunities are available...
According to preliminary data compiled by the rural development ministry, about 37.46 million individuals sought work in May under the scheme, down 12.1% from a year earlier..
Heat waves and possible temporary delay in fund flow during elections may have impacted work demand last month, apart from strong economic activity, said NR Bhanumurthy, vice chancellor of BASE University in Bengaluru and lead author of a study in 2012-13 on unspent MGNREGS allocations..
For the FY25 fiscal year, the rural development ministry has fixed the person-day generation target (called the labour budget) under MGNREGS at 2.21 billion, down 27% from the actual level in the previous fiscal year, thanks to the forecast of strong economic activity and a normal monsoon...
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