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The Centre releasedRs 4,431 crores to clear pending wages under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005(MGNREGA) & will also pay all dues (Rs 11,499 crores) by April 10, 2020. Key Points With this increase in wages, the national average wage under MGNREGA will rise from Rs 182 to Rs 202 per day. Totally there are 13.62 crore job cardholders under the MGNREGA, out of which 8.17 crores are active job cardholders. It also informed that Individual-oriented work(beneficiaries of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) & work done by women under MGNREGA can continue their work during the lockdown

Tamil Nadu has retained the third rank in the Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDG) India Index 2019, released by NITI Aayog. TheState’s overall score in 2019 is 67, up from 66 in 2018. This time, T.N. will share the third spot with Andhra Pradesh and The State saw major improvement in its scores relating to the goals of cleanwater and sanitation, sustainable cities and communities, life on land and peace, justice and strong institutions. It also witnessed a steep fall in the scores pertaining to zerohunger and reduced inequalities. Top performer Tamil Nadu was the top-performing State in terms of the ‘no poverty’ goal. The indicators used to assess performance in this area include population below national poverty line, households covered by health scheme/insurance and benefices of social protection under maternity, among others. The State’s score on the ‘zero huger’ goal dropped to 48 from 61. Under thegoal, in terms of the annual production of rice, wheat, coarse cereals (Kg/Ha) indicator, the State dropped to 2,598.00 in 2019 from 3,788.49 in Tamil Nadu, along with Kerala and Maharashtra, had achieved the goal relating to maternal mortality ratio (MMR). The State’sMMR stood at 63, as against the target to reduce it to 70 per 1,00,000 live births by 2030. In 2018-19, Tamil Nadu did not register any progress underthe Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, which aims to provide access to all-weather roads to all eligible unconnected habitations in the country — one of the yardsticks under the ‘industry, innovation and infrastructure’

The Tamil Nadu rural development department received 13 awards from the centre of effective implementation of rural development schemes, including MGNREGA, the 100- day job guarantee scheme. The state received awards in the category of state, district, panchayat union and village panchayats in programmes like MGNREGA, National Rurban Mission and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalay Yojana. The rural development department received 31 national awards this fiscal.