Ranchi, Jan. 30 -- At the beginning of this month, leaders of several MPs, social workers, former bureaucrats, researchers and farmers' movements had written a public letter to the Prime Minister about the continuous lack of budget in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA). By the end of December, 99 percent of the central government's 2018-19 MNREGA budget had ended. A few days after the letter was sent, the central government announced a supplementary budget of Rs 6084 crore for the NREGA. This will increase the total budget of 2018-19 to Rs 61,084 crore from Rs 55,000 crore.
State government has demanded additional funds
This supplementary budget is not enough for the workers waiting for their wages to pay f...