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Women workers in MGNREGS
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- The proportion of women workers participating in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has touched a ten-year high in the ongoing financial year.
- As per the Union Ministry of Rural Development report, 57.8% of the workers who used the scheme this year were women.
- This is their highest level of participation since 2012-13.
- Out of the reviewed15 States, 14 States reported an upward trend in women’s participation.
- The Kerala witnessed the minute drop.
- For the last five years, in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, women’s share in the MGNREGA workforce has been hovering between 85-90%.
- The growth spike was higher in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
- The proportion of women workers in Bihar grew 3.7 percentage points this year, while UP saw a 3.3 percentage point hike.
- But even after this year’s spike, UP is still skimming just above the mandatory women’s participation level of 33% under MGNREGA.
- This year, 37.6% person days were used by women as opposed to last year’s figure of 34.28%.
- women make up less than 50% of the MGNREGA workforce in seven States: Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Assam, Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
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