UP becomes top state to provide employment to workers under MGNREGA

Uttar Pradesh has become the top state in the country to provided employment to more than 57 lakh workers under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme MGNREGA.

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Uttar Pradesh has now accounts for 18 per cent of the total workers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the country and has generated 7.93 crore man-days.

On 15 june, 57,12,975 workers got employment in around 57 thousand village panchayats of the state which is 18% of the total work generated under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the country.

The state has generated 7.93 crore man-days and the government will provide jobs to 10 lakh more workers in the coming days. The employment push from the state government under MGNREGA comes as a major positive development at a time when more than 30 lakh migrant labourers have returned from other states to UP.