As a festival bonus toMNREGAemployees in the state, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday announced an increase in their honorarium from October. The government has also announced a 180 day long maternity leave, along with 24 days of casual leave and 12 days of medical leave for workers.
Speaking at the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural EMPLOYMENT Guarantee programme on Monday, the CM said that the government would soon be bringing out an HR policy, on the lines of theUttar PradeshState Rural Livelihood Mission, which would guarantee leaves etc to the employees.
The increase includes Rs 10,000 per month to MGNREGS workers, Rs 10,000 to gram sewaks, Rs 15,656 to technical assistants, Rs 15,156 to computer operators, Rs 34,140 to additional program officers, Rs 15,156 to accounts assistants, Rs 18,320 to operation assistants, Rs 18,320 to helpline executives, Rs 9,000 to class IV worker, Rs 14,100 to block coordinator and Rs 19,900 to district social audit coordinators.
In addition to this, the CM said that the government is working towards ensuring 100 days of employment under MNREGS to at least 20 lakh families on projects worth Rs 13,000 crore. The Consent of the deputy commissioner of MNREGS has been made necessary before terminating the Services of rozgar sewaks.
The CM added that in 2020-21, 1.16 crore jobs were generated with 39.46 crore of mandays. Under MNREGS, 103.27 crore mandays of work was generated over the past four years. In 2020-21, 94.37 lakh families got jobs in UP, which is the most in the country while over four years, 246.56 lakh families were given employment.