New Delhi:
The Rural Construction Ministry has been allotted Rs 1.88 lakh crore within the Union Finances for 2025-26, round 5.75 in line with cent greater than the allocation within the earlier finances.
Consistent with the finances proposals made through Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, the Rural Construction Ministry has been earmarked Rs 1,77,566.19 crore in opposition to Rs 1,77,566.19 crore allotted within the Finances for 2024-25.
Alternatively, the 2024-25 Revised Estimate, a midyear evaluate of the expenditure carried out through the ministry, stood at Rs 1,73,912.11 crore, Rs 3,654.08 crore fewer than the preliminary allocation.
The allocation for flagship rural employment scheme Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Construction Scheme (MGNREGS) was once Rs 86,000 crore, the similar because the remaining yr. In 2023-24, the allocation for MGNREGS was once Rs 60,000 crore, however further budget had been supplied and the true expenditure stood at Rs 89,153.71 crore, the Finances record confirmed. No further allocations for MGNREGS had been made in 2024-25. The scheme supplies assured 100 days of salary employment in a monetary yr to no less than one member of each and every family whose grownup participants volunteer to do unskilled guide paintings. It helps to keep no less than one-third of jobs for ladies.
Within the Covid pandemic yr of 2020-21, when MGNREGS proved a lifeline in offering employment in rural spaces amid massive opposite migration within the lockdown duration, Rs 1,11,169 crore was once spent at the scheme, in accordance in line with earlier finances paperwork.
In her Finances speech, N Sitharaman introduced {that a} complete multi-sectoral ‘Rural Prosperity and Resilience’ programme can be introduced in partnership with states. She stated it’s going to cope with underemployment in agriculture via skilling, funding, generation, and invigorating the agricultural economic system.
“The objective is to generate plentiful alternatives in rural spaces in order that migration is an choice, no longer a need. The programme will focal point on rural ladies, younger farmers, rural early life, marginal and small farmers, and landless households,” the minister stated.
Rural Construction Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan lauded the Finances, pronouncing it goals at developing an “Atmanirbhar Bharat” or self-reliant India.
“That is the Finances of 140 crore Indians. This can be a Finances for developing an Atmanirbhar Bharat. Each and every segment of society has been looked after,” Chouhan stated.
The minister stated developing poverty-free villages for a poverty-free India is the focal point of the federal government.
“For a poverty-free India, we’d like poverty-free villages. The finance minister introduced the Rural Prosperity and Resilience Programme. For this, rural ladies, youths, farmers, landless labour, will all be introduced in combination, at the side of state governments” he stated.
“This Finances can be an important in eliminating poverty from rural India,” Chouhan stated. Amongst key schemes of the Rural Construction Ministry, Rs 19,000 crore has been allotted for the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna, virtually 58 p.c greater than Rs 12,000 crore allotted within the remaining Finances, however 31 p.c extra in comparison to the revised estimate, which stood at Rs 14,500 crore. The allocation for the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-Nationwide Rural Livelihoods Undertaking (DAY-NRLM) was once Rs 19,005 crore, 26 p.c greater than the remaining yr’s Finances allocation of Rs 15,047 crore.
For the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G), the allocation is Rs 54,832.00 crore, virtually the an identical quantity because the remaining finances’s allocation of Rs 54,500.14 crore.
The revised estimate, on the other hand, was once Rs 32,426.33, which mirrored the true spending through the ministry.
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