One out of every five MNREGA workers in country from state

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh has maintained its first position in providing employment under MNREGA, currently employing 40,27,392 people in 51,280 schemes.
Additional chief secretary (home) Awanish Awasthi said that one of every five persons employed under MNREGA in the country was from UP.
“Currently, there are more than 51,000 projects which are being implemented across 58,906 gram panchayats.There are 40,27,392 people working in these projects under MNREGA as on Wednesday. This is 21% of the total labour employed under MNREGA projects across the country,” he said.
He added that UP had reached 12% employment provided against the national total and on Tuesday, had disbursed Rs 71.32 crore as wages. Since the implementation of lockdown till now, Awasthi said, Rs 2,594.82 crore has been given as wages. UP has also generated 13.06 crore man days as employment under MNREGA.
“UP is the first in employment generation under MNREGA, having provided 74.69 lakh jobs till now. In terms of wage distribution, we have distributed Rs 530 crore more than Rajasthan, which is second to us,” he said.
On Wednesday, while reviewing the status of Unlock 2 which began form July 1, chief minister Yogi Adityanath issued directions to carry out a special drive in big cities like Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur, Ghaziabad, Noida, Agra, Bareilly, Meerut, Prayagraj and Gorakhpur to strictly enforce night curfew, social distancing and wearing of masks.
As per the new government guidelines, night curfew will be implemented from 10pm to 5am except in Meerut division where the curfew will extend from 8pm to 6am.