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Distress sign in job spend -Basant Kumar Mohanty

-The Telegraph

New Delhi: The Centre has decided to pump an additional Rs 7,000 crore into the rural job scheme, which is being read by critics as an undeclared sign that economic distress is forcing more people to fall back on unskilled jobs in villages.

The Union finance ministry has granted Rs 3,500 crore from the Consolidated Fund of India and asked the rural development ministry to divert another Rs 3,500 crore from other schemes to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act programme.

The additional funds take the annual allocation to Rs 55,000 crore, up from Rs 47,000 crore a year ago. Of the Rs 48,000 crore allocated for the scheme in this year's budget, the rural development ministry had released Rs 47,148.39 crore by January 1 to the states and Union territories.

Participation in the scheme, which seeks to provide up to 100 days of unskilled work to every rural household a year, has been rising consistently since 2014-15, when the Narendra Modi government came to power. The number of mandays too has been increasing.

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