Ministry of Rural Development

Job Cards to Migrant Labourers and Employed Workers

Posted On: 18 SEP 2020 3:53PM by PIB Delhi

Mahatma Gandhi NREGS is a demand driven wage employment scheme. Every adult member of a household in a rural area, having job card (as per Mahatma Gandhi NREG Act), is eligible for a demand for a job under the scheme. There is no provision to register a Job card holder categorised as migrant labourers/ family in the job card in the scheme. A job card can be issued to a migrant labour/family as per the provision of the Act against a demand by the migrant labour/family. A total of 86,81,928 new job card during the current FY so far, has been issued as compared to 36,64,368 new job card issued during the same period of the FY 2019-20. The details of job card issued is given atAnnexure-I.

State-wise details of persondays generated and total wage expenditure during 1st April to  12th September, 2020 under the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA are given atAnnexure-II.

Mahatma Gandhi NREGS is a demand driven wage employment scheme. The Act mandates to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of the household in rural areas of the country by assuring upto one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual works. The  adult member of every household residing in any rural area and willing to do unskilled manual work may submit the names, age and the address of the household to the Gram Panchayat at the village level, in whose jurisdiction they reside, for registration of their household for issuance of a job card. No data of past employment history is maintained under Mahatma GandhiNREGS.

This information was given in a written reply by the Union Minister of Rural Development& Panchayati Raj Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in Rajya Sabha today.

 

Annexure-I

 

 

No. of Jobs Cards issued from 1st April to 12th September

S. No.

State Name

2019-20

2020-21

1

ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR

276

408

2

ANDHRA PRADESH

79,241

3,97,519

3

ARUNACHAL PRADESH

10,291

12,584

4

ASSAM

2,19,121

1,49,654

5

BIHAR

6,91,562

11,76,084

6

CHHATTISGARH

83,256

2,44,900

7

GOA

29

178

8

GUJARAT

1,01,630

1,77,842

9

HARYANA

25,686

71,391

10

HIMACHAL PRADESH

15,638

43,104

11

JAMMU AND KASHMIR

28,817

31,537

12

JHARKHAND

1,91,898

4,06,278

13

KARNATAKA

2,17,125

4,15,482

14

KERALA

72,289

98,610

15

LAKSHADWEEP

5

5

16

MADHYA PRADESH

2,10,579

5,87,548

17

MAHARASHTRA

1,10,769

1,27,521

18

MANIPUR

5,382

9,152

19

MEGHALAYA

23,218

21,617

20

MIZORAM

6,722

7,428

21

NAGALAND

8,610

3,413

22

ODISHA

2,39,286

4,50,955

23

PUDUCHERRY

1,109

3,324

24

PUNJAB

95,650

1,02,950

25

RAJASTHAN

2,42,157

6,76,309

26

SIKKIM

1,181

1,400

27

TAMIL NADU

1,59,143

2,74,719

28

TELANGANA

70,295

2,12,966

29

TRIPURA

7,705

11,657

30

UTTAR PRADESH

4,89,013

21,45,346

31

UTTARAKHAND

19,320

59,977

32

WEST BENGAL

2,37,365

7,01,677

 

Total

36,64,368

86,23,535

 

Annexure-II

 

Employment Generated and Wage Expenditure in FY 2020-21 from 1st April to

12th  Sep 2020

 

S. No.

 

State/ UT

Persondays Generated (in lakh)

 

Wage Expenditure (in Rs.lakh)

1

ANDHRA PRADESH

2043.16

460685.03

2

ARUNACHAL PRADESH

55.46

20362.46

3

ASSAM

243.23

51455.38

4

BIHAR

1119.80

213347.56

5

CHHATTISGARH

961.71

178460.76

6

GOA

0.23

64.12

7

GUJARAT

317.99

61948.79

8

HARYANA

80.79

24911.56

9

HIMACHAL PRADESH

159.23

31826.31

10

JAMMU AND KASHMIR

95.79

51153.89

11

JHARKHAND

419.74

79587.43

12

KARNATAKA

835.09

221635.84

13

KERALA

317.86

93230.3

14

MADHYA PRADESH

1625.51

291209.07

15

MAHARASHTRA

312.84

67698.88

16

MANIPUR

107.57

36911.13

17

MEGHALAYA

125.90

26974.84

18

MIZORAM

116.82

26315.5

19

NAGALAND

104.72

11629.66

20

ODISHA

925.54

203730.77

21

PUNJAB

151.06

38450.21

22

RAJASTHAN

2707.38

445104.7

23

SIKKIM

17.74

3764.19

24

TAMIL NADU

1418.51

260040.03

25

TELANGANA

1216.54

196679.54

26

TRIPURA

189.95

35200.16

27

UTTAR PRADESH

2303.42

456499.61

28

UTTARAKHAND

127.90

26003.17

29

WEST BENGAL

2091.69

401041.36

30

ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR

0.91

494.98

31

DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI

0.00

0

32

DAMAN & DIU

0.00

0

33

LAKSHADWEEP

0.01

1.95

34

PUDUCHERRY

8.83

1863.14

 

Total

20,202.92

40,18,282.32

 

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