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and a total of 65.09 lakh individual beneficiary works and 3.28 lakh water conversation related
works have been completed in the current financial year as on 21st January 2021. Wages under
Mahatma Gandhi NREGA was increased by ` 20 from ` 182 to ` 202 w.e.f. 1 April, 2020,
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which would provide an additional amount of ` 2000 annually to a worker. Key elements and
remarkable achievements of the scheme are given in the Box 9.

Box 9: Key elements and remarkable achievements of MGNREGA

• The steps to strengthen the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA ‘inter-alia’ include electronic Fund
Management System (eFMS), use of Aadhaar, Geo tagging of assets and strengthening of Social
Audit System, implementation of Software for Estimate Calculation Using Rural rates for
Employment (SECURE), Geographical Information System (GIS) based planning, Time and
Motion Study (TMS) to increase efficiency of estimation of work, JanMANREGA- a mobile
application system, eSaksham- a digital learning platform, Cluster Facilitation Project (CFP) to
position thematic experts at all levels in selected blocks with poor implementation capacity and
Project Unnati to upgrade the skill base of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA workers.
• 311.92 crore person-days generated in FY 2020-21 (as on 21.01.2021) which is an all-time high.
Of the total person-days, person-days for women is 52.69 per cent, SC is 19.9 per cent and ST is
17.8 per cent which are well above the norms.

• Around 61 per cent of total works taken up during FY 2020-21 (as on 21.01.2021) pertain to
individual beneficiary schemes and 68.37 per cent of the total expenditure is on agriculture and
allied works.

• 4.24 crore Mahatma Gandhi NREGA assets geo-tagged and made available in the public domain.
• 99 per cent of wages paid electronically into the accounts of the Mahatma Gandhi NREGS workers
during 2020-21 as against 37.17 per cent during 2013-14.

Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM)
10.45 DAY-NRLM seeks to alleviate rural poverty through building sustainable community
institutions of the poor. The mission aims at mobilizing about 9-10 crore households into SHGs
and link them to 'sustainable livelihoods opportunities by building their skills and enabling
them to access formal sources of finance, entitlements and services from both public and private
sectors. Cumulative progress (upto December 2020) shows that about 7.26 crore households
have been mobilized into 66.03 lakh SHGs under the mission. In terms of capitalization support,
the SHGs have been provided more than ` 12,195 crore cumulatively as Revolving Fund and
Community Investment Fund from the Mission. As an integral approach to capacity building,
the Mission has trained and deployed more than 3 lakh Community Resource Persons, who are
providing support to the community institutions. DAY-NRLM has also been instrumental in
providing the last mile delivery of financial services in remote rural areas through promotion of
digital finance and deployment of SHG Women as Banking Correspondent Sakhi (BC Sakhi),
with the support of banks and Common Service Centres.

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)

10.46 PMGSY was launched on 25 December, 2000 with the objective to provide single all-
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weather road connectivity to all eligible unconnected habitations of the designated population