New Delhi, Dec. 9 -- The political slugfest over the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) escalated on Tuesday as the union Ministry of Rural Development informed the Lok Sabha that West Bengal is the only state with uncleared, due, and admissible pending wage liabilities from the previous financial year (2024-25).
The revelation came in response to an unstarred question (No. 1508) raised by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on the pendency of wage and material payments under the scheme.
Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development, Kamlesh Paswan, in his written answer, stated that all due and admissible pending wage liabilities up to FY 2024-25 for all States/UTs "have already been cleared ...