Madhya Pradesh Government provides employment to more than 49 thousand families under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The objective of this scheme is to increase income sources of unskilled labourers in the rural areas.AIR correspondent reports, the scheme is being implemented in 31 districts of the Madhya Pradesh including Jhabua, Mandla, Umaria, Shahdol, Barwani, Khargone, Shivpuri, Katni, Panna, Rajgarh and Rewa. The desirous families have to get themselves registered with gram panchayat, which provides them job cards. When a job cardholder demands employment, it is provided within 15 days. If employment is not provided on demand, the applicant is provided employment allowance, which is one-fourth of the minimum wages for first 30 days and half of the minimum wages for the rest of allowance period.Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme creates 727 lakh mandays of work and provision of employment to 49 thousand 7 hundred families by the month of October, 2011. State stands third in spending maximum funds on material and stands fifth in the country in creation of maximum number of mandays employment. Madhya Pradesh stands fifth in providing employment to maximum number of families since its inception.State gets fifth place in the country in receiving maximum funds during last fiscal. Forty-four per cent women worked under this scheme for their livelihood .