MP too is working to increase MGNREGA work. At the beginning of April, there were 57,536 workers enrolled in the state under the Centre’s flagship rural jobs scheme. The number increased to 1,985,166 by the end of April. As on date, 1,125, 893 people are getting employment every day in the state.
NEW DELHI: States such as Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are preparing to create more work opportunities for returning migrant labourers, who are headed for their homes now that the restrictions on their travel imposed in the wake of Covid-19 have been eased.
“Those who are coming back are not likely to return (to their workplaces) till Chatth Puja in winter,” Bihar’s deputy chief minister and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi told ET. “Anywhere between five and 10 lakh people would come back to Bihar.”
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In the coming two-three days, 12 trains from Telangana and seven from Gujarat will be run for Gujarat for this purpose.
“We have started making new MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) cards to add to the existing list of 32 lakh active cards. We would offer work for everyone who enrols under MNREGA. A lot of construction activities have already started under different schemes of the central as well as state government,” said Modi.
Source: Economic Times
