In reply to a question on the MGNREGS funds being exhausted, Minister of State for Rural Development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti said the Union government has released Rs 66,629 crore to states for wage, material and administrative components under the scheme till November 29.
Relatively strong work demand, wage hikes and inflation could push up expenditure under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in FY25, a person aware of the details told ET.
“The Left must provide a counternarrative to the two major nationalist narratives, that of the Congress and that of the BJP, in an era of duelling hyper-nationalism.”
West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose has taken up with the Centre the issue of pending wages of workers under the rural employment guarantee scheme, people in the know told ET Tuesday, a day after Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee withdrew his five-day-long sit-in protest outside the Raj Bhavan.