While a focused jobs guarantee thrust could help mitigate financial distress for tens of thousands of rural families, Maharashtra’s performance on MGNREGA until now this year has been lacklustre on several counts.
Mumbai: As drought conditions worsen in across large parts of rural Maharashtra and sowing for rabi crops adversely affected, the state is expected to give a fresh push to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), a key policy measure to tackle drought-driven agrarian distress.
But while a focused jobs guarantee thrust could help mitigate financial distress for tens of thousands of rural families, Maharashtra’s performance on MGNREGA until now this year has been lacklustre on several counts.
Even as a group of politicians and activists wrote to the Union government seeking strengthening of the NREGA scheme to alleviate the current agrarian crisis, the numbers show that Maharashtra, in comparison to other states, is not even middling in the number of households benefited, number of person days of work generated or percentage of currently active workers among job-card holders.
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