Govt allocates Rs 60000 crore for MGNREGA for 2019-20

New Delhi, Feb 1 The government on Friday proposed to allocate Rs 60,000 crore for rural work conspire under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) for the year 2019-20.

The amount allocated for 2019-20 is 11 percent higher contrasted with Rs 55,000 crore designated for the year 2018-19.

The revised estimate of the plan for the year 2018-19 was Rs 61,084.09 crore, according to official data.

Presenting the between time Union Budget in Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday declared a distribution of Rs 60,000 crores for MGNREGA for budget estimates 2019-20.

Additional allocations will be made, if required, he said.

The government has guaranteed that everyone gets food and nobody sleeps with an empty stomach. "We have attempted to connect urban-rustic partition in the nation. We are allocating Rs 60,000 crore for MGNREGA," Goyal said.

The rural job guarantee scheme, presented in 2005, now covers all the rural districts of the nation. The targets of the plan includes giving as long as 100 days of untalented manual work in a monetary year to each family unit in rustic territories according to request bringing about formation of productive assets, the government said in the budget document.