Centre Spends 72% of MGNREGA Budget In First Four Months

by Ankush Choubey Aug 05, 2020 • 03:39 PM Views 784

On 27 February 2015, in the Lok Sabha, PM Modi mocked the Congress' MGNREGA scheme, calling it 'a memorial of Congress's failure' but during the pandemic, the Modi government has taken maximum support of the same scheme to help the economically distressed workers. According to the latest data of the Union Rural Development Ministry, Centre has already spent 72% of this year's MGNREGA budget in the first four months i.e Rs 87,611.41 crore of the allotted 1.22 lakh crore