The jump of Rs 40,000 crore in allotment to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is more or less what the government had planned at one stage
Fiscal stimulus 2.0: Why cash support to migrant workers was aborted
The plan for cash relief changed as the ground realities altered rapidly in the past two months
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After end of Lockdown 1.0 on April 14, it had become clear to the Centre the migrant workers, cooped up without job, would need a special support programme
First Published: May 18 2020 | 2:23 AM IST
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