NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharman on Friday stated Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA authorities has eliminated all ills from the rural-employment assure scheme MNREGA and spent highest ever about Rs 90,500 crore to date this fiscal.
Replying to the finances debate within the Rajya Sabha, the minister attacked the opposition Congress failing to utilise the whole quantity allotted within the Budgets after they have been in energy.
She stated through the Covid pandemic 12 months, the federal government has spent Rs 90,469 crore below the MNREGA rural employment scheme, which highest ever.
Sitharaman stated for 2020-21, the budget estimate was Rs 61,500 crore for the scheme, which has been elevated to Rs 1,11,500 within the revised estimates.
“Your observe document is unhealthy. By no means your finances estimate was met,” the finance minister stated as she reeled out knowledge from 2009-10 and subsequent years below the Congress-led UPA regime.
Replying to the finances debate within the Rajya Sabha, the minister attacked the opposition Congress failing to utilise the whole quantity allotted within the Budgets after they have been in energy.
She stated through the Covid pandemic 12 months, the federal government has spent Rs 90,469 crore below the MNREGA rural employment scheme, which highest ever.
Sitharaman stated for 2020-21, the budget estimate was Rs 61,500 crore for the scheme, which has been elevated to Rs 1,11,500 within the revised estimates.
“Your observe document is unhealthy. By no means your finances estimate was met,” the finance minister stated as she reeled out knowledge from 2009-10 and subsequent years below the Congress-led UPA regime.