New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- The FY26 budget announced a long thread of schemes for rural India, including a comprehensive multi-sectoral rural prosperity and resilience programme, grameen credit score and broadband connectivity for all government secondary schools and primary health centres.

But experts say allocations should have been higher, especially towards schemes like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) and rural housing scheme, to take inflation into account.

The multi-sectoral rural prosperity and resilience programme will be launched in partnership with states to address underemployment in agriculture through skilling, investment, technology, and invigorating the rural economy.

The goal is also to gen...