Unskilled workers in Haryana get the highest wage, under MNREGA, in the country while those from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh are the least paid.
"Haryana is the only state among all states and Union Territories in the country to give highest wage rate of Rs 251 per day to unskilled manual workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005," a spokesman Haryana government said here today.
A notification to this effect has been issued by the Union Ministry of Rural Development, according to which, unskilled workers in Nicobar are second highest paid labourers among the states and union territories (UT) where they get Rs 241 per day, while in Chandigarh they get Rs 239 per day.
The other states and UTs where a labourer was getting more than Rs 200 per day are Kerala (Rs 229 per day), Andaman (Rs 228/day), Punjab and Lakshdweep (Rs 210/day), Goa (Rs 208/day), Karnataka (Rs 204/day) and Scheduled Areas of Himachal Pradesh (Rs 203/day)
Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were among the states that were paying least to an unskilled labourer. The states pays Rs 159 per day to a worker under MNREGA, while Uttarakhand and Uttar Pardesh were paying Rs 161 per day.
Unskilled workers in Bihar, Jharkhand and unscheduled areas of Himachal Pradesh were getting Rs 162 per day, in Meghalaya they were getting Rs 163 per day.
The wage rate of other states and UTs were Rs 164 per day in Jammu and Kashmir, Rs 167 per day in Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh, Rs 173 in Rajasthan, Rs 174 in Odisha and West Bengal, Rs 178 in Gujarat, Rs 179 per day in Assam, Rs 180 in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Rs 181 in Maharashtra and Daman and Diu, Rs 183 in Mizoram, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, Rs 190 in Manipur and Rs 196 in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, the spokesperson said.
