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Rural workers face wage delay -Basant Kumar Mohanty

-The Telegraph

MGNREGA funds run thin, government sits on demand

Millions of rural job scheme workers may have their wages delayed in the new year with the programme coffers depleting and the finance ministry sitting on the demand for additional funds.

According to data on the scheme website, the funds available as of December 30, 2019, were Rs 2,766 crore, which social activists working on the scheme’s implementation said would be exhausted in two weeks.

Government officials said the rural development ministry had written to the finance ministry about three months ago demanding an additional Rs 20,000 crore, but had received no response.

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