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Deletion of MGNREGA Job Cards
July 28 , 2023
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- More than five crore job cards under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) were cancelled in 2022-23.
- This is 247 per cent more than the number of deletions in 2021-22
- In 2021-22, 1,49,51,247 MGNREGA job cards were deleted.
- In 2022-23, 5,18,91,168 job cards were cancelled.
- West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana were among the states which saw the highest number of deletions.
- The deletions were made due to reasons like "fake" job cards, duplicate job cards, people not willing to work anymore, family shifted from Gram Panchayat permanently, or person's death.
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