Nadu, one of the States hit hard by COVID-19, has created a record in the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural EMPLOYMENT Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in the just-concluded financial year (2020-21).
After four years, the number of person days generated in the State crossed the 30-crore-mark. It stood at 33.4 crore person days. For 2020-21, the Centre had fixed a target of 27 crore person days for the State. Later, it revised the target to 32 crore person days. This is a record for the State as the number of days of employment remained at 100 last year, points out an official of the State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department.
When the generation of person days exceeded the 30-crore-mark last time, around 39.6 crore in 2016-17, the number of days of employment was increased to 150.