Target 5.1 - End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

National Indicator - Legal frameworks to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex

MGNREGA Schedule II, Para 32 enforces that there shall be no discrimination solely on the ground of gender and the provisions of the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 shall be complied with.

MGNREGA Schedule II, Para 15 mandates that at least one - third of the beneficiaries who have registered and requested for MGNREGA work are women.

Women person days generated under MGNREGS

Women person days as percentage of total person days. MGNREGA mandates that 1/3rd of the work be given to women

53.46% women

(FY 2017-18)

Mandated 0

Women

Men

Reference Period: FY 2017-18

Source: Women person days | Schedules - MGNREGA 2005