PREVIOUS
✖
Cap on MGNREGS Spending
June 13 , 2025
18 days
144
0
- For the first time, the government has capped spending limit under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) at 60 per cent of its annual allocation.
- Until now, the rural jobs guarantee scheme has operated as a demand-driven programme with no such spending limit.
- Now the Finance Ministry informed MoRD that it could spend up to 60 per cent of MGNREGS’s annual outlay—Rs 86,000 crore—in the first half of the financial year.
- This means that only Rs 51,600 crore will be available for the scheme until the end of September.
- For 2025–26, the Rural Development Ministry has approved a labour budget of 198.86 crore person days.
- Of this, 67.11 per cent—or 133.45 crore person days — are projected to be created in the first half of the financial year.
Leave a Reply
Your Comment is awaiting moderation.