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“The Modi government’s NITI commission CEO Amitabh Kant in April 2018 said that the country’s progress is deterred because of states like Madhya Pradesh,” Nath said. He said that the Narendra Modi Centre issued “property index of states and only 15.8% of families living in Madhya Pradesh came under its purview”. “In Madhya Pradesh 68.25 lakh families are registered for MNREGA which shows that half the population of the state are forced to work as labourers,” Nath tweeted. He said this condition of Madhya Pradesh is similar to states like Chhattisgarh and Bihar whereas in Chandigarh 78.5%, Punjab 60.7% and Himachal 31% families are affluent. In Bihar, agricultural labourers get Rs 251 per day, in Andhra Pradesh the wage is Rs 291 per day, in Maharashtra Rs 269 per day and in West Bengal Rs 232 per day..