MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI JAIRAM RAMESH)
(a) to (e): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.
Statement as referred to in reply to parts (a) to (e) of Lok Sabha
Starred Question No. 318 for answer on 26.04.2012
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(a) to (c): Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is
demand driven and funds are released to States/Districts on the basis of advance
projection of labour demand. The budget estimate and revised estimate of outlay
for MGNREGA from 2010-11onwards is given below:-
(Rs. in crore)
Year BE RE
2010-2011 40100.00 40100.00
2011-2012 40000.00 31000.00
2012-2013 33000.00 -
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MGNREGA provides a legal guarantee for up to 100 days of wage employment to
every rural household in a financial year for doing unskilled manual work, on demand
to be made following a prescribed process. Since employment is provided on demand,
households provided employment, persondays generated and requirement of funds by
the States/UTs depend on demand for employment. The details of funds released by
the Central Government to the States/Union Territories for implementation of
MGNREGA and funds utilised from 2010-11 onwards as reported by States/UTs are
given in Annexure.
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(d) & (e): Proviso to para 6 of Schedule-II of MGNREG Act specifies that priority
shall be given to women in such a way that at least one-third of the beneficiaries
shall be women who have registered and requested for work under the Act. Â No funds
under MGNREGA are earmarked separately for empowerment of women in rural areas.
