State crosses nat’l average in MGNREGS

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State crosses nat’l average in MGNREGS

Thursday, 13 February 2020 | PNS | BHUBANESWAR

The State has crossed the national average in many indicators of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

This was reveled at the governing body meeting of the MGNREGS Society held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy at the Lok Seva Bhawan here on Wednesday. Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water Principal Secretary Deo Ranjan Kumar Singh outlined the issues for discussion.

Tripathy directed the departments to take up more need based projects in convergence with MGNREGS.

Odisha is ahead of national average in the indicators like project completion, geo-tagging, timely payment of wages, individual beneficiary based projects, e-payment, and employment generation. Around 91 per cent of the projects up to 2018-19 have been completed against the national average of 89.5 per cent. Similarly, 95 per cent of the assets created under MGNREGS during Phase-I and 84 per cent of assets created under Phase-II have been geo-tagged against the national average of 91 per cent and 79 per cent, respectively. With regard to timely payment of wages, 99.4 per cent of payments have been made within the scheduled timeline against the national average of 96.5 per cent. The percentage of the completion of individual beneficiary based projects has gone up to 86 per cent against national average of 68 per cent. The percentage of workers seeded with Adhara number and paid their wages through e-payment is around 89 per cent  against national average of 74 per cent. The percentage of man days created in Odisha is 85 per cent of the approved labour budget against the national average of 79.6 per cent.  In the current year, 844.92 lakh person days have been generated by January 20 which is 14.67 lakh more than the person days created during 2018-19.

Singh said lemon grass cultivation in convergence with MGNREGS has proved effective in Subarnapur district. Farmers can earn Rs 30,000 to Rs 40,000 per acre of land through this cultivation, he said.    

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