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MGNREGA was infested with ghost accounts in UPA days, we are using it properly with transparency: FM Nirmala Sitharaman in RS

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said that the UPA government launched Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act(MGNREGA) scheme which was infested with ghost accounts and turned out to be a source of corruption at that time.

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