Haryana has successfully generated 83.83 lakh person-days during the year 2010-11 as against the approved budget for 78.46 lakh persondays under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

The information was given in the meeting of Committee of Secretaries on Rural Development chaired by Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati here today.

Gulati said that out of the total persondays, at least 50 per cent employment should be provided to women under this ambitious scheme.

She directed other departments for convergence of MGNREGS with funds from other sources for the creation of durable assets as permissible under the guidelines of the Government of India.

It was also revealed that budget for labour for 86 lakh persondays had been approved for the current financial year.

A total number of 7,164 works were completed during the last financial year as compared to 4,070 completed in the year 2009-10 under the scheme.

It was informed in the meeting that a total fund of about Rs 215 crore had been spent under MGNREGS during the year 2010-11, as compared to Rs 143.56 crore spent during 2009-10.

More than 2.34 lakh families were provided employment in the year 2010-11, as compared to over 1.52 lakh families covered under the scheme in the previous year.

A total number of 5,579 works were under progress in the last financial year. In all, employment of 29 lakh personsdays was provided to women, which was 35 per cent of the total employment provided.

It was also informed in the meeting that the line departments had issued instructions to their field functionaries to draw viable shelf of projects to achieve convergence with MGNREGS.