India, March 19 -- Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday accused the Congress of misleading Parliament on the implementation of the rural jobs guarantee scheme, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or MGNREGA, stating that the Modi government had ensured direct payments to beneficiaries and brought efficiency to the welfare programme.

In a series of posts on X, the minister said the scheme had seen effective implementation and an increase in budget allocation under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"In the financial year 2006-07, the budget allocation was Rs.11,300 crore, which increased to Rs.33,000 crore in 2013-14, and it has been continuously increasing over the past 10 year...