With the financial year starting on April 1, villagers working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) will get Rs 191 per day as wages. The wages for Haryana under the scheme were Rs 186.42 per day in the financial year ending on March 31. As per a notification published in the Gazette of India, the wages for Haryana will be the highest in the country and Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar being the next with daily wages fixed at Rs 189. Daily wages for Andaman district have been fixed at 178 per day, as per the notification. The MNREGS wages for Punjab are Rs 166 per day, third highest in the country after Haryana and the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Bihar and Jharkhand will have the lowest MNREGS wages at Rs 122, while states like Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Sikkim and Nagaland will have slightly better wages at Rs 124 per day. Meanwhile, Rs 33.73 crore has been spent on Sirsa under the MNREGS, during the current financial year, said Deputy Commissioner J Ganeshan today. He said works for Rs 4.78 crore have been completed in the Baragura block, for Rs 4.58 crore in Dabwali, Rs 4.79 crore in Ellenabad, Rs 4.50 crore in Nathusari Chopta, Rs 4.82 crore in Odhan, Rs 6.30 crore in Rania and for Rs 3.32 crore in Sirsa block. He said against the target of Rs 35 crore, the authorities hope to complete works worth Rs 40 crore by March 31. He added that so far 953 families in Sirsa had been provided 100-day employment in the last one year. He said under the MNREGS, 12.54 lakh man-days were generated in the district out of which 7.45 lakh were for members belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and 4.56 lakh man-days were for women.