About 39% of all job card-holding households seeking work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme did not get a single day of work in the Covid year of 2020-21 as against the average work demand for 77 days, shows a study conducted by Azim Premji University in partnership with the National Consortium of Civil Society Organisations on NREGA and Collaborative Research and Dissemination (CORD).
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