nIn Chhattisgarh, 121,740 families have been provided employment for more than 100 days till date in the current fiscal 2020-21 under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA)).
Chhattisgarh ranks sixth in the country in terms of providing 100-day employment to the maximum number of families. MNREGA and its convergence with other departmental schemes provide employment to rural labourers and conserve their means of livelihood.
Large numbers of forest land lease holder families in the state are also being provided employment under MNREGA. This year, as many as 19,799 families got employment for 100 days.
Chhattisgarh ranks second after Odisha in terms of providing employment to forest land lease holder families. A total of 23 percent of the forest land lease holder families in the country who were given employment for 100 days under MNREGA are from Chhattisgarh.
Panchayat and Rural Development Minister T.S. Singh Deo has given instructions to implement MNREGA on a larger scale so as to keep the rural economy in motion during the nationwide lock-own due to the Covid pandemic.
As a result, people in villages and forest areas continued to get work and the rural economy continued to run smoothly.
In the first seven-eight months of the current financial year, MNREGA workers got more than 100 days of employment resulting in huge financial support. During this time, all precautions were taken along with measures to avoid corona infection at workplaces.
So far this year, 8,971 families have been provided more than 100 days of work in Kabirdham district, 7,780 in Rajnandgaon, 7,088 in Bilaspur, ,5802 in Dhamtari, 5,506 in Raipur, 5,348 in Balodabazar-Bhatapara, 5,142 in Mungeli, 5,012 in Sukma, 4,918 in Jashpur, 4,754 in Surajpur, 4,729 in Korea, 4,345 in Bastar, 4,172 in Raigarh, 4,168 families in Mahasamund and 4,158 families in Balrampur-Ramanujganj.