Target 2019: NDA fast-tracks rural homes for 10 million

From the look of it, NDA is focused on PMAY, just like UPA was on MGNREGA

The government has decided to give its rural housing scheme a big push, which analysts believe could play a role in the 2019 general election verdict.

Conversations with bureaucrats and experts indicate that the Narendra Modi-led NDA government is focused on the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) quite like UPA government’s efforts on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). In many ways, MGNREGA, the world’s largest state-funded employment scheme promising 100 days of work to rural households, is believed to have helped UPA return to power in 2009. 

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