Activists allege 'killing' as MGNREGA of scheme allocation gets 33% cut
Millennium Post Delhi|Delhi 02 February 2023
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme, which proved a major savior for migrant workers and ‘face saver’ for the government during Covid-19 pandemic, witnessed major fund cut in the Budget allocations for the financial year 2023-24.
DHIRENDRA KUMAR
Activists allege 'killing' as MGNREGA of scheme allocation gets 33% cut

NEW DELHI: According to the Budget estimates announced for 2023-24 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the rural job scheme has been allocated Rs 60,000, which is 18 per cent lesser than the Rs 73,000 crore Budget estimates for the current fiscal and 33 per cent lower than the 89,000 crore revised estimates for populist scheme.

It’s not that allocation for MGNREGA has been slashed for the first time as it had witnessed a 25 per cent cut in the last Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman when the allocation for the scheme was made at Rs 73,000 crore,

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