New Delhi: The variety of rural households that didn’t get work below the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme soared to 7.8 million in January – an all-time excessive on this monetary 12 months – as states have been mentioned to have gone sluggish in offering work.
While there was demand for work from 26.2 million households in January, solely 18.4 million obtained employment, according to government data.