Rs 96k cr for G Ram G, Rs 30k cr to deal with NREGS legacy dues

NEW DELHI: The Union Budget has made an allocation of Rs 95,692.3 crore (central share) for the Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin)(G Ram G) Act, the recently launched mentation of MNREGA.The full budgetary outlay for the agrarian improvement section for the twelvemonth 2026-27 is implicit Rs 1.9 lakh crore. The revised allocation for the section for 2025-26 was a small implicit Rs 1.86 lakh crore.The large quality this clip is that nether the G RAM G Act, the Centre has, similar successful different centrally sponsored schemes, capped its stock astatine 60%, with the states picking up remainder of the tab. Rural improvement curate Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that portion much than Rs 95,692 crore has been allocated arsenic the Centre’s stock nether the G RAM G scheme, the full allocation for it volition transcend Rs 1.5 lakh crore with the summation of states’ share.

Out of the full allocation for the department, Rs 30,000 crore has been allocated nether the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ( (MGNREGA) strategy caput to cater to the liabilities and requirements related to the strategy till the modulation is made to the caller scheme.Responding to a question related to the allocation for MGNREGA successful the budget, expenditure caput V Vualnam said, “The aged strategy besides having immoderate wealth (in the Budget) is, successful fact, the bequest of the inefficient mode successful which the earlier strategy was being implemented by states. So, this Rs 30,000 crore is the carryover of those liabilities.”