Rural Employment

With returns falling steadily in recent years, those working in India’s fields are desperately searching for non-farm jobsIn 2017-18, about 78% of all construction workers in rural areas were deployed in government programmes

Explore how well five flagship welfare schemes have been delivered in your district over the last five years

About 150,000 farm ponds were constructed under the rural job guarantee scheme to ensure storage of rain water and improved irrigation in rural India, says the government

There isn't any big base effect at work here, so the fall in wage growth is the result either of less demand for rural labour or more supply. Either way, it points to rural distress

The scheme can aid drought mitigation, but the metrics in the state show that the government has failed to fully utilize it

More than half of Indian industrial production comes from the rural areas

Inadequate funds, delayed payments and falling real wages have hurt implementation of the MGNREGS at a time when rural distress is worsening, the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha said

Over 5.69 crore households had sought employment under the MGNREGA scheme in 2016-17 and 5.12 crore of them were provided work

Rural development ministry releases Rs23,443.09 crore to states for the first time in April as the first tranche of funds under MGNREGS, thanks to early Union budget

The SBI's economic research dept says MGNREGA work increased from 83 lakh households in October 2016 to 167 lakh households in February 2017