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Centre hikes wage rates for workers under MGNREGA

  •   Thu, Mar 28 2024 12:22:06 PM

New Delhi, Mar 28 (IANS): The Centre has notified a 3-10 per cent increase in the wage rates for workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) for the financial year 2024-25. The new wage rates will come into effect from April 1.

The average MGNREGA wage nationwide for 2024-25 will be Rs 289 up from Rs 261 for 2023-24 which is an increase of Rs 28 per day.

The increase in wage rate varies from 3 per cent for Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to 10.56 per cent for Goa and 10.4 per cent for Karnataka. In the case of Andhra Pradesh, the increase is 10.29 per cent, Telangana (10.29 per cent) and Chattisgarh (9.95 per cent).

Currently, MGNREGA wages are linked to changes in the rural inflation rate as measured by Consumer Price Index- Agriculture Labour.

The Rural Development Ministry had recently obtained the Election Commission’s permission to notify the revised wage rates as the model code of conduct has come into force for the Lok Sabha elections.

Workers in Haryana will get the highest wage of Rs 374 per day. The lowest has been fixed for Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland at Rs 234 per day.

The Centre has allocated Rs 86,000 crore for MGNREGA in the Union budget for 2024-25.

 
  

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  • Vincent D'Souza, Belthangady

    Thu, Mar 28 2024

    I can't understand this logic!?

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  • Roshan, Mangalore

    Thu, Mar 28 2024

    UPA introduced MGNREGA to help unemployed to earn a guaranteed livelihood. Millions benefited and hailed within india and even internationally as one of the innovative and cutting edge policy to reduce poverty and unemployment. Comes 2014, MGNREGA was ridiculed with much theatrics by PM Modi in the floor of the house. He said it is a monument to illustrate congress failure. Today unemployment is 5times more than in 2014 and historically at peak. 2Crore jobs every year BJP promise gone to drain, just like acche din. So, what is the way out? MGNREGA. Bhakths will give a million excuses, but fact of the matter is Congress done right things for the country and BJP always opposed and ridiculed it.

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