Congress calls for scaling up MGNREGA, suggests five steps

Addressing a presser after Sonia Gandhi's article on MGNREGA appeared Monday, senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that it is the Congress which sustained "pressure" that has now compelled Modi government to increase the MGNREGA allocation to over Rs 1 lakh crore from the original allotment of Rs 61,000 crore at the start of the current fiscal year. Singhvi said that money allocated in MGNREGA under the PM's financial assistance package is ostensibly Rs 40,000 crore, in effect due to outstanding liabilities, the total amount is not Rs 1 lakh crore but closer to Rs 84,000 crore. The party has demanded 200 working days and also 10 days advance wages to the MGNREGA workers. Listen-in. (Text: IANS)