RECORDING A SHARP increase in the demand for work under the Mahatma National Rural Gandhi Employment Scheme Guarantee (MG-NREGS), the monthly figure of households availing jobs under the programme touched 30.4 million in June this year, the highest in the last three years.
This is 10% higher than 27.5 million in June 2022, and higher than 29.3 million in June 2021 as well, when India was hit by the deadly second wave of Covid-19.
The monthly figure of families availing the MG-NREGS in April 2023 was 20.7 million and May 2023 was 28.6 million.
The previous high was recorded in June, 2020, during the first wave of Covid-19, when 38.9 million families had availed the MG-NREGS, in the wake of migrants returning to their village after national lockdown. In fact, there have been only three occasions June 2023, May 2020 and June 2020 - when the monthly figure of households availing MG-NREGS crossed the 3-crore mark since April 2014, the earliest month from which monthly employment figures are available on the NREGS dashboard.
This story is from the July 17, 2023 edition of Financial Express Mumbai.
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