Removal of workers from Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS) is a demand-driven wage employment scheme and the responsibility of implementation of the scheme is vested with the Government of concerned States/UTs. Updation /deletion of Job Cards is a regular exercise conducted by the States/UTs. However, while deleting/ removing workers/Job cards, States/UTs have to ensure compliance with provisions of the Act and ensure that no job card of deserving or eligible household is deleted/cancelled. States/UTs-wise details of number of active workers deleted/cancelled from Mahatma Gandhi NREGS during the financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24 is given below. A total of 86,17,887 and 68,86,532 active workers have been deleted/cancelled during the Financial Year 2022-23 and 2023-24 respectively, for reasons such as fake/duplicate/incorrect job card, family shifted out of Gram Panchayat permanently, Village becomes classified as urban etc. States/UTs-wise details of number of active workers deleted/cancelled from Mahatma Gandhi NREGS during the financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24 SI. No. State/UTs 2022-2023 2023-2024 Active Workers Active Workers 1 Andaman And Nicobar 11 17 2 Andhra Pradesh 485757 360840 3 Arunachal Pradesh 8315 17008 4 Assam 166823 315937 5 Bihar 1403802 237655 6 Chhattisgarh 274534 595205 7 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu 0 2 8 Goa 4 6 9 Gujarat 201611 258451 10 Haryana 10016 7089 11 Himachal Pradesh 25399 41045 12 Jammu And Kashmir 44227 108263 13 Jharkhand 344051 242883 14 Karnataka 376577 225536 15 Kerala 14863 51335 16 Ladakh 3243 1488 17 Lakshadweep 0 0 18 Madhya Pradesh 790419 1627427 19 Maharashtra 195146 102843 20 Manipur 16740 33268 21 Meghalaya 9675 60233 22 Mizoram 5587 8802 23 Nagaland 8802 13507 24 Odisha 694696 436230 25 Puducherry 309 325 26 Punjab 107228 33404 27 Rajasthan 352408 727700 28 Sikkim 1067 2195 29 Tamil Nadu 233543 270860 30 Telangana 415200 121422 31 Tripura 15820 49765 32 Uttar Pradesh 1448978 806253 33 Uttarakhand 22951 43291 34 West Bengal 940085 86247 Total 8617887 6886532 This information was given by the Minister of State for Rural Development Shri Kamlesh Paswan in a written reply in Lok Sabha today. ***** MG/KSR/294 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS) is a demand-driven wage employment scheme and the responsibility of implementation of the scheme is vested with the Government of concerned States/UTs. Updation /deletion of Job Cards is a regular exercise conducted by the States/UTs. However, while deleting/ removing workers/Job cards, States/UTs have to ensure compliance with provisions of the Act and ensure that no job card of deserving or eligible household is deleted/cancelled. States/UTs-wise details of number of active workers deleted/cancelled from Mahatma Gandhi NREGS during the financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24 is given below. A total of 86,17,887 and 68,86,532 active workers have been deleted/cancelled during the Financial Year 2022-23 and 2023-24 respectively, for reasons such as fake/duplicate/incorrect job card, family shifted out of Gram Panchayat permanently, Village becomes classified as urban etc. States/UTs-wise details of number of active workers deleted/cancelled from Mahatma Gandhi NREGS during the financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24 SI. No. State/UTs 2022-2023 2023-2024 Active Workers Active Workers 1 Andaman And Nicobar 11 17 2 Andhra Pradesh 485757 360840 3 Arunachal Pradesh 8315 17008 4 Assam 166823 315937 5 Bihar 1403802 237655 6 Chhattisgarh 274534 595205 7 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu 0 2 8 Goa 4 6 9 Gujarat 201611 258451 10 Haryana 10016 7089 11 Himachal Pradesh 25399 41045 12 Jammu And Kashmir 44227 108263 13 Jharkhand 344051 242883 14 Karnataka 376577 225536 15 Kerala 14863 51335 16 Ladakh 3243 1488 17 Lakshadweep 0 0 18 Madhya Pradesh 790419 1627427 19 Maharashtra 195146 102843 20 Manipur 16740 33268 21 Meghalaya 9675 60233 22 Mizoram 5587 8802 23 Nagaland 8802 13507 24 Odisha 694696 436230 25 Puducherry 309 325 26 Punjab 107228 33404 27 Rajasthan 352408 727700 28 Sikkim 1067 2195 29 Tamil Nadu 233543 270860 30 Telangana 415200 121422 31 Tripura 15820 49765 32 Uttar Pradesh 1448978 806253 33 Uttarakhand 22951 43291 34 West Bengal 940085 86247 Total 8617887 6886532 This information was given by the Minister of State for Rural Development Shri Kamlesh Paswan in a written reply in Lok Sabha today. ***** MG/KSR/294