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&lt;em&gt;New Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;The government&#039;s spending on the rural job scheme increased 10 per cent in the last fiscal despite a matching decline in the number of beneficiaries because of deletion, challenging claims that weeding out bogus card-holders helped cut down on expenditure and pointing to the lack of jobs in rural areas.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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<em>New Delhi: </em>The government's spending on the rural job scheme increased 10 per cent in the last fiscal despite a matching decline in the number of beneficiaries because of deletion, challenging claims that weeding out bogus card-holders helped cut down on expenditure and pointing to the lack of jobs in rural areas.<br />
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