-The Economic Times
NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government is setting out to achieve in the next two years what the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Scheme could just about accomplish in the last 10.
The rural development ministry is confident of adding 1 million farm ponds and wells and another million vermi composting farms under the programme. That’s almost as much as the total such assets the scheme — put in place by the UPA government-—managed to create in the past decade. The government will be sharpening focus on rural sector schemes in the upcoming budget in a big way.
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