Livelihoods: As many as 56.87 lakh workers completed 100 days of employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in Karnataka in FY 2020-21 as compared to 41.09 lakh workers in FY 2019-20. This is an increase of 38.4 percent.
While the number of works undertaken during FY 2020-21 was 8.66 lakh—much higher when compared to 2.37 lakh number in FY 2019-20, the number of works completed was lower at 1.42 lakh against 1.8 lakh in FY 2019-20.
A sum of INR 5.9 crore was spent by the government to provide jobs under the scheme in the last financial year, while the amount spent on providing wages stood at INR 3,970.94 crore. On April 1st, 2021, the state government revised the daily wage for NREGA workers from INR 245 to INR 289.
Read this article on how NREGA fared during lockdown.
