Budget 2022: Center allocates Rs 73,000 crore to MGNREGA, 25.51% less than the revised estimate of 2021-22.
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- Center allocates Rs 73,000 crore for rural employment guarantee program MGNREGA for 2022-23 in the budget
- This is 25.51 percent less than the revised estimate of the current financial year.
- MGNREGA aims to enhance the livelihood security of families in rural areas of the country.
The Center has allocated Rs 73,000 crore for the rural employment guarantee program MGNREGA for 2022-23 in the Union Budget presented on Tuesday. This is 25.51 per cent lower than the revised estimate for the current financial year.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had allocated Rs 73,000 crore for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Program in last year’s budget as well. However, this was later revised to Rs 98,000 crore due to high demand for work.
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The objective of MGNREGA is to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to enhance the livelihood security of households in rural areas of the country, whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
In the first phase, the scheme was implemented in 200 most backward districts with effect from February 2, 2006, later it was extended to 113 districts with effect from April 1, 2007 and 17 additional districts with effect from May 15, 2007.
The remaining districts were covered under the Act with effect from 1st April, 2008. The Act now covers all the rural districts of the country.
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