Budget 2024: Allocation for MGNREGS lower than last year’s actual expenditure, despite BJP’s poll losses in rural India
The government has signalled that it wants to revisit the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme, arguing that it has not met its expected outcome of poverty alleviation. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Notwithstanding the BJP’s significant losses in rural constituencies in the 2024 general election, the first Budget of the new NDA…