<span style="color: #222222;">In Madhya Pradesh, the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme has become a ray of hope for the labourers residing in rural areas and for those returning home from other states in this time of COVID-19. The wages are being deposited directly in to the beneficiary's account on the basis of weekly muster rolls.<br />''<br />''Additional Chief Secretary Panchayat and Rural Development Manoj Shrivastava informed that 199 crore rupees have been paid to eight lakh 91 thousand families so far.<br />''<br />''According to the demand of the local community, employment-oriented works have been started in 22 thousand 477 Gram Panchayats.<br />''<br />''In these Panchayats, one lakh 50 thousand works like water conservation, roads and pond construction, fencing and trench construction are going on and employment is being provided to 18 lakh 81 thousand labourers.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the total number of Corona infected cases has increased to four thousand 595 in Madhya Pradesh. The good news is that so far two thousand 283 people have been cured.<br />''<br />''At present, the condition of two thousand 73 people is stable. So far 239 people have died due to the infection in the state.<br />''<br />''As per the official information, around 94 thousand tests have been conducted in Madhya Pradesh till date. </span><br />