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The Rural Development Department of the Bihar government has canceled more than 1.2 crore inactive job cards issued under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) in the last one year. State Rural Development Minister Shravan Kumar said on Monday that a total of 1,23,13,927 job cards out of 3,85,69,626 were found to be inactive for the past several years and were canceled as part of the campaign run by the Bihar Rural Development Department. Has gone. He told that in some cases the job cards were fake or were not linked with the Aadhaar number or the beneficiaries had died.
Job card of those who migrated to other states canceled
The minister said that the department canceled all such job cards after physical verification. Apart from this, the job cards of a large number of laborers who had migrated from the state after getting job cards were also canceled and their cards have been inactive for the past several years. He said that the department has provided a total of 23.07 lakh new job cards to laborers in different districts of the state in the last one year. Also, under the provisions of MNREGA, instructions have been given to provide employment under the scheme to the job seekers within 15 days of the demand and for not doing so, fine will be imposed on the concerned government officials.
1.26 crore people got employment in 2022-23
Minister Shravan Kumar said that under this scheme, the government provided employment to 1.26 crore job card holders in the year 2022-23. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 was earlier known as National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or NREGA. MGNREGA aims to strengthen livelihood security in rural areas by providing guaranteed employment of at least 100 days in every financial year.
where how many cards canceled
The Minister said that maximum number of job chords have been canceled in Vaishali (8,89,150) district followed by Patna (7,55,308), Samastipur (6,30,654), Araria (6,14,530), Darbhanga (5,79,778). , Aurangabad (2,20,330), Begusarai (3,13,696) etc. is the location of the districts.
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