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Increase of MNREGA wages
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- The Centre has notified a hike in wage rates under its rural job guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS), for the 2023-24 financial year.
- Haryana gave the highest daily wage at Rs 357 per day.
- Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh gave the lowest at Rs 221.
- Goa and Karnataka have received the lowest hike with an increase of a mere two per cent.
- Rajasthan has received the maximum gain, with wages increasing by 10.39 per cent from April 1 over the current wage rate.
- Seven other states have received less than a 5 per cent increase in wage rates for 2023-24 over the current (2022-23) rates.
- They are Meghalaya (3.4 per cent), Manipur (3.59 per cent), Arunachal Pradesh (3.7 per cent), Nagaland (3.7 per cent), Assam (3.93 per cent), Tamil Nadu (4.63 per cent), and Puducherry (4.63 per cent).
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