MGNREGA_SAMEEKSHA

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Table 1.2
State-wise Share of SCs and STs in Total Population and MGNREGA
(FY 2006–07 to FY 2011–12)*
Share of SCs and STs
State In total population In MGNREGA
(% share of total (Cumulative % share of total person-days in
population in the State) the State from FY 2006–07 to FY 2011–12)*
Andhra Pradesh 22.8 36.1
Assam 19.3 43.2
Bihar 16.6 43.8
Chhattisgarh 43.4 52.0
Gujarat 21.9 55.2
Haryana 19.3 37.6
Himachal Pradesh 28.7 33.5
Jammu and Kashmir 18.5 28.6
Jharkhand 38.1 56.6
Karnataka 22.8 26.2
Kerala 10.9 15.1
Madhya Pradesh 35.5 60.4
Maharashtra 44.6 43.3
Odisha 38.6 57.7
Punjab 28.9 60.0
Rajasthan 29.8 50.3
Tamil Nadu 20.0 43.1
Uttar Pradesh 21.2 46.3
Uttarakhand 20.9 24.3
West Bengal 28.5 42.5
All India 24.3 51.0
Note: (1) Union Territories and some States are not included in the table. (2) The SC/ST share is cumulative from FY 2006–07 to
2011–12 as a % of total person-days generated in the State. (3) The All India total share of SCs and STs and % share of persondays
is for all States and Union Territories.
*Provisional Data: At the time of the preparation of the report, data entry for States was still open for the year 2011–12.
Source: Share of population from Census of India 2001 and share of MGNREGA work from www.mgnrega.nic.in.
The Act allows works such as irrigation,
horticulture, land development, on private land
belonging to the SCs and the STs or below poverty
line families or to the beneficiaries of land reforms
or to the beneficiaries under the Indira Awas Yojana
(IAY) of the GoI or that of the Small or Marginal
Farmers (SMF) as defined in the Agriculture Debt
Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme, 2008 of the GoI, or
to the beneficiaries under the Scheduled Tribes and
Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of
Forest Rights) Act, 2006.
Twelve per cent of the total works in FY 2011–12*
alone were on lands of individual beneficiaries (see
Table 1.3), a vast majority of these are SMF, the
productivity of whose lands has been so decimated
over the years, that they have been compelled to
labour under MGNREGA. 44 Permitting private works
on lands of SMF implies a coverage of 40 per cent of
44
M. Shah, ‘Employment Guarantee, Civil Society and Indian Democracy’, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 42, nos 45 and
46, 10–23 November 2007.