Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman: Govt to allocate additional Rs 40,000 crore under MGNREGS

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday announced that the Centre has allocated an additional amount of Rs 40 thousand crores under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

"The government will now allocate an additional Rs 40 thousand crores in the MGNREGS. It will address the need...