MGNREGA Wage Hiked For 2023-24; Check Latest Rates In Different States

The Centre has notified a hike in wage charges underneath the agricultural job assure programme for the 2023-24 monetary yr with Haryana having the very best each day wage at Rs 357 per day and Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh the bottom at Rs 221.

The Union Ministry of Rural Development issued a notification on the change in wage charges underneath the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on March 24.

The notification was issued underneath Section 6 (1) of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005, that claims the Centre could, by notification, specify the wage price for its beneficiaries.

The wage hikes, which vary from Rs 7 to Rs 26, will come into impact from April 1.

Compared to final yr’s charges, Rajasthan registered the very best proportion improve in wages. The revised wage for Rajasthan is Rs 255 per day, up from Rs 231 in 2022-23.

Bihar and Jharkhand have registered a proportion improve of round eight from final yr. Last yr, the each day wage for a MNREGA employee in these two states was Rs 210. It has now been revised to Rs 228.

For Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, which have the bottom each day wages at Rs 221, the share improve from final yr was recorded at 17.

In 2022-23, the 2 states had a each day wage of Rs 204.

The will increase within the wages for states vary between two and 10 per cent. Karnataka, Goa, Meghalaya and Manipur are among the many states to register the bottom proportion improve.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is a flagship programme geared toward enhancing livelihood safety of households in rural areas by offering not less than 100 days of assured wage employment in a monetary yr to each family whose grownup members volunteer for unskilled guide work.

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