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Government of India
Ministry of Rural Development
07-January-2019 17:10 IST
Payment delays in MGNREGA

As per Management Information System (MIS), State/UT-wise percentage of timely generation of pay order under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) since FY 2014-15 to FY 2017-18 is at Annexure-I. The Ministry along with the States/UTs has been making concerted efforts for improving the timely payment of wages. States/UTs have been advised to generate pay orders in time. This has resulted in considerable improvement in the status of timely generation of pay order and leading to improvement in actual time taken to credit wages in the workers account. The delay in payment of wages are due to implementation issues in the States which include inadequate staffing, non-timely recording and reporting of attendance, measurement, data entry, generation of wage list, Fund Transfer Order (FTO), etc.

 

     As per provisions under Para 29 of Schedule-II of Gandhi National NREGA, 2005 the compensation for delay in payment of wages is paid to the workers. As per Management Information System (MIS), State/UT-wise details of delay compensation paid by State Governments during current financial year 2018-19 (as on 02.01.2019) is given at Annexure-II.

 

    Wage rates for workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 are notified and revised annually based on Consumer Price Index-Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL) by the Central Government in accordance with the provisions of Section 6(1) of the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA. The revised wage rates are made applicable from 1st April of the year. The CPI-(AL) is published by Labour Bureau, Shimla. For the FY 2018-19, the wage rate has been revised w.e.f. 01.04.2018 based on CPI-(AL).

 

This information was given by the Minister of State for Rural Development, Shri Ram Kripal Yadav in Rajya Sabha today.

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Annexure-I

 

 

 

%age of timely generation of pay order

Sl No

States

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

1

ANDHRA PRADESH

41.19

80.52

80.19

88.33

2

ARUNACHAL PRADESH

30.28

8.76

6.65

16.78

3

ASSAM

31.80

20.04

66.50

81.86

4

BIHAR

15.86

14.77

31.41

58.61

5

CHHATTISGARH

28.80

7.64

24.52

93.52

6

GOA

42.33

30.65

67.38

63.69

7

GUJARAT

45.01

34.28

38.97

80.17

8

HARYANA

16.91

29.73

59.02

83.06

9

HIMACHAL PRADESH

19.45

29.55

42.65

92.65

10

JAMMU AND KASHMIR

10.31

11.52

3.76

8.50

11

JHARKHAND

68.05

71.61

79.96

94.89

12

KARNATAKA

11.50

30.60

49.36

76.99

13

KERALA

15.86

19.54

77.45

97.35

14

MADHYA PRADESH

15.93

27.57

54.93

83.23

15

MAHARASHTRA

25.97

34.59

48.75

74.33

16

MANIPUR

87.38

82.07

88.46

75.93

17

MEGHALAYA

6.50

0.75

4.26

42.32

18

MIZORAM

98.29

79.13

68.52

6.76

19

NAGALAND

19.04

3.53

1.89

17.68

20

ODISHA

19.61

36.96

33.52

86.69

21

PUNJAB

3.21

13.76

45.94

69.98

22

RAJASTHAN

38.77

45.19

80.28

92.10

23

SIKKIM

43.29

41.91

56.81

73.28

24

TAMIL NADU

28.31

31.72

9.71

99.17

25

TELANGANA

35.66

68.14

81.34

85.16

26

TRIPURA

69.02

56.21

72.93

84.50

27

UTTAR PRADESH

18.30

20.02

23.94

64.17

28

UTTARAKHAND

32.53

24.40

67.00

94.77

29

WEST BENGAL

4.17

17.15

24.23

88.01

30

ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR

17.97

16.62

54.04

25.00

31

LAKSHADWEEP

50.04

61.68

0.00

37.35

32

PUDUCHERRY

46.32

20.15

0.48

99.21

 

National

28.39

36.92

43.42

84.71

 

Note: Figures are reported by the State Governments in MIS (as on 02.01.2019)

Annexure - II

 

S. No.

State

Delay compensation Paid [In Rs.]

 

 

 

1

ANDHRA PRADESH

0

2

ARUNACHAL PRADESH

2047

3

ASSAM

168029

4

BIHAR

140835

5

CHHATTISGARH

0

6

GOA

0

7

GUJARAT

275400

8

HARYANA

46332

9

HIMACHAL PRADESH

200228

10

JAMMU AND KASHMIR

0

11

JHARKHAND

45715

12

KARNATAKA

38458

13

KERALA

415094

14

MADHYA PRADESH

2787970

15

MAHARASHTRA

1439249

16

MANIPUR

0

17

MEGHALAYA

135

18

MIZORAM

0

19

NAGALAND

0

20

ODISHA

165

21

PUNJAB

82324

22

RAJASTHAN

1633989

23

SIKKIM

0

24

TAMIL NADU

16

25

TELANGANA

0

26

TRIPURA

2845

27

UTTAR PRADESH

0

28

UTTARAKHAND

5159

29

WEST BENGAL

5943195

30

ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR

0

31

LAKSHADWEEP

0

32

PUDUCHERRY

0

 

Total

13227185

Note: Figures are reported by the State Governments in MIS (as on 02.01.2019)