lucknow two days after chief minister yogi adityanath pitched for creation of 50 lakh jobs every day under mahatma gandhi rural employment guarantee scheme mnregs the rural development department galloped to the halfway mark of 26 lakh jobs essentially for migrants who returned to up following the lockdownaccording to rural development department data number of new jobs dramatically rose 26 times over a 20day span from 146 lakh on april 21 to 2629 lakh on thursdaythe biggest leap recorded on may 1 was coincidentally world labour day when more than 2 lakh mnregs jobs were generated the graph however dipped on may 11 when 36000 jobs were provided under the flagship schemeconfirming the trend additional commissioner yogesh kumar said mnregs was turning out to be the biggest jobspinner during the lockdown we are looking forward to raising the mandays to touch the 50lakh mark in days to come he told toi grassroots data show the number of gram panchayats where work under the flagship scheme was planned had swelled from 9343 on april 21 to 46405 on thursday this was a 5time jump within 20 days rural development department officials said 79 gram panchayats have already been covered under mnregsstatistics buttress the fact that rural development department began work under mnregs in a graded fashion while in covid green zones comprising 20 districts mnregs works were conducted in 13265 gram panchayats in 36 districts under orange zone work was conducted in 24482 gram panchayats likewise in red zone 10 districts work under the scheme was taken up in 8658 panchayatsthe largest number of 108929 labourers were engaged in east up district of siddharthnagar under mnregs this was followed by lakhimpur kheri maharajganj ghazipur and azamgarh where at least 95000 labourers were employed by the rural development department