Resource detail

The Centre has pumped in an additional Rs 6,084 crore in the flagship rural job programme, widely seen as a part of its resource mobilization to spruce up the rural and agricultural sector ahead of the election. The new allocation in the revised estimate takes the total annual allocation to the scheme to Rs 61,084 crore in 2018-19, the highest-ever allocation for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Scheme. The scheme offers alternative jobs for distressed farmers, labours for rural housing and creation of individual assets. In the past four years, the rural ministry has focused on creation of durable assets under the rural job scheme to help farmers find alternative means of livelihood.