NEW DELHI: Often under attack over alleged poor execution of MGNREGA scheme, Government today claimed the average person days employment generated per household last fiscal was highest in eight years at 49 days even as there was improvement in timely payment of wages under the livelihood programme during the span.
In its report titled, ‘Performance, Initiatives and Strategies FY 2015-16 and FY 2016-17′, the government claimed that a total of 235 crore person days’ work were generated last year.
The programme, the report said, could reach irrigation potential in 46.43 lakh hectares with a range of natural resource management initiatives – ponds, dams, wells, check dams, afforestation, land development, water shed management works, etc and benefited 33.61 lakh people.
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