State's MGNREGS wage revised to Rs 260
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, April 01 2023: The wage rate under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for Manipur has been revised to Rs 260 per day, with effect from April 1 .

According to an order issued by the joint secretary of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department (State Monitoring Cell), the unskilled wage under MGNREGS has been increased to Rs 260 from Rs 251 .

The order, however, stated that there will no changes in the wages fixed by the Labour and Employment Department in a notice issued on December 27, 2016, for skilled workers (Rs 273) and semiskilled workers (Rs 248).Mention may be made here that the Union Ministry of Rural Development had issued a notification on March 24 for increasing the wage rate under MGNREGS in all states and union territories.

In accordance to the notification, Haryana topped the list with highest wage rate for job card holders at Rs 357 per day, while Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh had the lowest wage rate at Rs 221 per day.

However, states like Karnataka, Goa, Meghalaya and Manipur had the lowest revised wage rate i.e., by 2-10 percent.

The notification was issued under Section 6 (1) of MGNREGA, 2006 .

The newly effected rate increased the wages by Rs 7 to 26 .

Last year, Rajasthan had the highest revised wage rate.

For 2022-23, the wage rate of the state increased from Rs 231 to Rs 255 .

MGNREGS is a flagship programme aimed at providing 100 working days to every household in rural areas so to help improve their living standards.

Under this programme, anyone above 18 years of age in a family is eligible for MGNREGS works.

On the other-hand, Manipur government could recover GST revenue of Rs 65 crore in the month of March, 2023 alone thereby registering the growth by 9.37 percent compared to March, 2022 .

GST revenue collection of Manipur state was Rs 60 crore in as in March 2021-22, a report of the ministry of finance said.

According to the report, the gross GST revenue collected in the month of March 2023 was Rs 1,60,122 crore of which CGST was Rs 29,546 crore, SGST Rs 37,314 crore, IGST was Rs 82,907 crore (including Rs 42,503 crore collected on import of goods) and cess was Rs 10,355 crore (including Rs 960 crore collected on import of goods) .

It is for the fourth time, in the current financial year that the gross GST collection has crossed Rs 1.5 lakh crore mark registering second highest collection since implementation of GST.

This month witnessed the highest IGST collection ever.

According to the report, the government has settled Rs 33,408 crore to CGST and Rs 28,187 crore to SGST from IGST as regular settlement.

The total revenue of Centre and the states in the month of March 2023 after IGST settlement was Rs 62,954 crore for CGST and Rs 65,501 crore for the SGST.

The revenues for the month of March 2023 are 13 percent higher than the GST revenues in the same month last year.

During the month, revenue from import of goods was 8 percent higher and the revenues from domestic transaction (including import of services) are 14 percent higher than the revenues from these sources during the same month last year.

The return filing during March 2023 has been highest ever.

93.2 percent of statement of invoices (in GSTR-1) and 91.4 percent of returns (in GSTR-3B) of February were filed till March 2023 as compared to 83.1 percent and 84.7 percent respectively same month last year.

The total gross collection for 2022-23 stands at Rs 18.10 lakh crore and the average gross monthly collection for the full year is Rs 1.51 lakh crore.

The gross revenues in 2022-23 were 22 percent higher than that last year.

The average monthly gross GST collection for the last quarter of the FY 2022-23 has been Rs 1.55 lakh crore against the average monthly collection of Rs 1.51 lakh crore, Rs 1.46 lakh crore and Rs 1.49 lakh crore in the first, second and third quarters respectively, the report said.

The report also mentioned that Mizoram state registered highest growth of 91.16 percent in the state-wise figures of GST collected in each state during the month of March 2023 as compared to March 2022.Mizoram state recovered Rs 37 crore in the month of March 2021-22 but could recover Rs 70 crore in the month of March 2022-23 .

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