Job guarantee scheme gets 40,000 crore extra

Job guarantee scheme gets 40,000 crore extra

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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday announced an additional allocation of Rs 40,000 crore for MGNREGA for 2020-21. She said it will help generate total 300 crore persondays of work. The step seeks to reassure rural India hit by job losses where the demand will only be compounded by the large population of poor migrant workers headed back to their villages from across the country.

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