A male casual laborer engaged in public work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme had a daily average wage of 142 Indian rupees during the months of April to June 2018. Under the MGNREG, the adult members of every household who volunteer to do unskilled manual work are provided with at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment every financial year.
Average daily earnings from casual labor in MGNREG public work across rural India from July 2017 to June 2018, by gender (in Indian rupees)*
*Data is based on a survey consisting of 12,800 FSUs (7,024 villages and 5,776 UFS blocks).
Wage earnings by casual laborer engaged in public work was recorded for each of the day of the reference week (last 7 days preceding the date of the survey) when the household member had worked as casual labor.
Note: One Indian rupee is equal to 0.014 U.S. dollars and 0.013 euros (as of November 2019).
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MOSPI. (May 31, 2019). Average daily earnings from casual labor in MGNREG public work across rural India from July 2017 to June 2018, by gender (in Indian rupees)* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 19, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1071888/india-average-daily-earnings-of-casual-laborer-mgnreg-public-work-rural-by-gender/
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