The revised rate of wages of the unskilled labour registered under the MGNREG Act for the financial year 2025 -26 in Jharkhand does not perk up the MNREGA campaigners.

The ministry of rural development government of India has notified revised rate of wages of the unskilled labour for the year 2025- 26 for its different states and union territories as well on March 27, 2025.

The revised rate of wages in Jharkhand is 255 rupees only per Manday for the financial year 2025-26. It's effective from April 1, 2025.

It was 245 rupees per Manday in the financial year 2024-25.

Jharkhand's revised rate of wages is just one rupee short of Assam where it's 256 rupees per Manday.

However Jharkhand's MGNREGA labourers are not any luckier like their counterparts in states like Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala etc to name few states where the revised rate of wages is 400, 370, 369 rupees per Manday respectively.

Jharkhand state convener of the NREGA Watch James Herunj said "It's a poor revised rate of the ministry of rural development government of India for state like Jharkhand."

"The state share is 27 rupees. Thus the revised rate of wages comes to 282 (255+27= 282) rupees per Manday in Jharkhand. It's a peanut here" added the convener.

"Do you think any unskilled labour will settle for 282 rupees per Manday in Jharkhand? Certainly not." reiterated the state convener.

There are 69 lakhs of households registered under the MGNREGA in Jharkhand.

If one counts head of the labour under the MGNREG in Jharkhand then it comes to 1.36 crore labours added James Herunj.

On being asked as to why MGNREGA is a forgotten name for the unskilled labour to whichever he said "It's because of the apathy of the governments both the central and the state."

"The state share is just 27 rupees since 2021! It has not increased in all these years by even a paisa. What more proof of apathy one needs to know." said the convener.

Earning wages of the MGNREGA is now a digitally ticklish thing which an unskilled labour just hates like anything.

"Can any one believe wages to the tune of 5 crores of rupees for Mandays is pending in Jharkhand?" quipped the state convener.

No MGNREG labour has any clue of its payment he said.

This 5 crore is pending as wages. Similarly there is a similar huge amount pending in respect of the materials for the schemes in the MGNREGA informed the convener.