New Delhi, May 20 -- Despite a rise in household registrations under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the rural jobs scheme failed to generate adequate employment in 2024-25, with persondays and average work days per household both falling, a new analysis has found.

According to a report by nonprofit LibTech India, registered households under the scheme rose by 8.6 per cent, but persondays generated dropped by 7.1 per cent. The average number of days of employment per household fell by 4.3 per cent, and only 7 per cent of households completed the 100 days of work guaranteed by the scheme.

Persondays declined from 2,888.3 million to 2,684.4 million, while the number of households provided employment ...