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of wages) and employers’ share (12 percent of wages) of contribution payable or only the
employees’ share, depending on employment strength of the EPFO registered establishments.
Under ABRY, benefits are provided to every establishment registered with EPFO and their new
employees (earning wage less than ` 15,000 per month) if the establishments take new employees
on or after 1.10.2020 and up to 31 March, 2022 or those who lost jobs between 01.03.2020 to
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30.09.2020. As on 6 January 2022 benefits have been given to 43,21,837 beneficiaries through
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1,22,228 Establishments.
Wage employment

10.62 Allocation to MGNREGS in FY 2021-22 increased to ` 73,000 crore, from ` 61,500
crore in FY 2020-21. Allocation for FY 2021-22 has been enhanced to Rs 98000 crore so far. In
FY 2021-22 over 8.70 crore individuals and 6.10 crore households were provided work so far.

10.63 To boost employment and livelihood opportunities for returnee migrant workers, Garib
Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan was launched in June 2020. It focused on 25 target-driven works to
provide employment and create infrastructure in the rural areas of 116 districts of 6 States with
a resource envelope of Rs 50,000 crore.

Boosting Self-employment

10.64 The Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM),
launched in 2011, is another intervention that seeks to alleviate rural poverty through building
sustainable community institutions for the poor. The programme targets to mobilise about 9-10
crore households into Self Help Groups (SHGs). It is to 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. Till December, 2021, 8.07
crore households are mobilized into SHGs. The number of SHG households engaged in farm
livelihoods in 2021-22 (till December, 2021) stood at 1.47 crore as against 1.16 crore in 2020-21
and 0.86 crore in 2019-20. The number of SHG members involved in non-farm livelihoods in
2021-22 increased to 1.82 lakhs (till December, 2021) members from 1.55 lakhs in 2020-21 and
0.98 lakhs in 2019-20.
Social protection

10.65 Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan (PM-SYM) Yojana, launched on
05.03.2019, is a voluntary and contributory pension scheme for providing monthly minimum
assured pension of ` 3000 on attaining the age of 60 years. The workers in the age group of
18-40 years having monthly income of ` 15000 or less and not a member of EPFO/Employees’
State Insurance Corporation (ESIC)/National Pension Scheme (NPS) (Govt. funded) can join
the scheme. Under the scheme, 50 percent monthly contribution is payable by the beneficiary
and equal matching contribution is paid by the Central Government. Enrolment to the scheme
is done through the Common Service Centres. In addition, eligible persons can also self-enroll
through visiting the portal www.maandhan.in. As on 17.01.2022, the enrolment under the PM-
SYM scheme is 46.09 lakh persons, out of which female enrolment was 23.89 lakh and male
enrolment was 22.20 lakh.