Hyderabad, Feb. 5 -- A staggering 1,21,422 active MGNREGS workers from Telangana were removed from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS, also known as MGNREGA) in 2023-24, revealed a parliamentary query made by the Communist Party of India (CPI) MP S Venkatesan.

Replying to the CPI(M) MP S Venkatesan's question on the removal of MGNREGA workers from the scheme's roll, Union minister of state for rural development Kamlesh Paswan revealed that more than 68 lakh (68,86,532) active workers were removed in the financial year 2023-24, while 86,17,887 workers were removed in 2022-23.

The minister's answer also contained the state-wise data on MGNREGS deletions, which revealed that in Andhra Pradesh, 3,60,840 w...