Project Unnati

Facing less than a lukewarm response to project Unnati, the Union Rural Development Ministry wants to link performances of the States under the project with its labour budget for the upcoming financial year 2023-24.

Poor Performance: The performance so far has been far below this 20% target.

• In the 2020-21 financial year for example, 71 lakh households worked for 100 days in the country under the MGNREGS but only 8,658 persons received training under the Unnati project.
• Similarly, in 2021-2022, the number of eligible households stood at 59 lakh, but only 12,577 persons were trained.
• The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic that coincided with ....