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As per government documents, the current year’s progress report on MGNREGA shows that around 33,000 structures have been completed and work on around 1.1 million structures is still on
After the Centre’s ambitious target of constructing one toilet per second to spruce up rural development failed, it has come up with another ‘impractical’ target. Now, the NDA government plans to construct 42 water harvesting structures every hour under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
MGNREGA, introduced in 2005 by the previous UPA government, guarantees 100 days of unskilled work to the rural masses.
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