Dehradun, Dec. 18 -- Garhwal Post Bureau

Dehradun, 17 Dec: The Bharatiya Janata Party has dismissed the opposition claims in respect of the restructuring of the MGNREGA scheme and the surrounding grants. In a statement, BJP State media in-charge Manveer Chauhan claimed that the Congress is trying to spread confusion in this respect. He asserted that that for Himalayan states like Uttarakhand, the central government's share of funding in the scheme will remain at 90 per cent. Furthermore, Chauhan described the Congress's allegations of corruption in the state as baseless and questioned why, if land laws were already sufficient, thousands of hectares of land were allowed to fall under illegal occupation.

Chauhan also stated that the chang...