Modi criticises Congress' implementation of MGNREGA


New Delhi, March 3 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took a dig at the Congress for poor implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the states.

Citing the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report of 2012, Modi said the Congress-led UPA government failed to get the scheme implemented to maximum effect in the poorest states.

He was replying to the motion of thanks on the President's address in the Lok Sabha.

"Kharge ji (Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge) said that there is corruption in MGNREGA, I agree with him 1000 percent. I don't disagree with it," said the prime minister.

He said the 2012 CAG report had stated that the scheme was implemented better in states where the population of the poor was less. 

"But the states in which it was needed the most, the scheme was utilized the least. This means we could not target the poor through this scheme properly," Modi said.

The CAG report had also stated that even after seven years of its inception, there were five such states which did not even draft the rules of the scheme, he said.

"The sad part is that among the five, four are those states who sing the praises of the scheme," Modi added.

  

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  • JD, mangalore

    Fri, Mar 04 2016

    Mr. Prime Minister, the amount of time you dedicate to put down COngress and it's leadership, in every forum at every opportunity, locally and internationally, speaks of only your inferiority and insecurity, don't you think.

    You are in charge today, teach the people to think / talk positively, look ahead and project the country as a better place to live.

    Are we not tired of listening to the same rhetoric? By repeating it, you can't demean them more, but you are damaging yourself and giving us a feeling that, you still consider them a threat or better than you, and that is why you find the need to talk about them.

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  • prr, sullia

    Fri, Mar 04 2016

    1)Private equity and venture capitalists investments in 2015 touched an all-time high worth USD 16 billion.
    2) The Indian School of Business (ISB) reported a 10 per cent rise in the number of offers made to the 2016 batch of post graduate programme in management. The average increase in salaries was 14 per cent.
    3) IMF Pegs India Economic Growth Rate at 7.5% in 2016-17.
    Modi's effort to improve economy is taking shape even with the disruption of proceedings in parliament.

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  • sampath,

    Fri, Mar 04 2016

    you are right, By looking at some of the comments below one can analyze the IQ levels.May be they just need 15 Lakhs in their account.They dont care about the growth of this country.

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  • Sunil Kamath, Delhi

    Fri, Mar 04 2016

    Phak gaya yaar.. Koi toh bolo humko bhashans nahin chahiye thoda kaam karke dikao

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  • Nagesh , Mumbai

    Fri, Mar 04 2016

    Before showing the fingers to others please check 4 fingers are showing at you that what you are doing instead of blaming others please do work for the better future of the people

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  • Mangesh, Mumbai

    Fri, Mar 04 2016

    New BJP agenda we will always blame the congress but we will not blame us what we have did when we were in opposition

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  • Lokesh, Padubidri

    Thu, Mar 03 2016

    No one is interested your feku speeches please concentrate on what you have promised for the people

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  • Venugopal, Palimar

    Thu, Mar 03 2016

    Can anyone tell our pm to fulfill his election promises yaar

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  • santoshprabhu, india

    Thu, Mar 03 2016

    he is quoting the report of 2012 when UPA themselves were in power. Now govt should do a fresh audit to check the progress

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Thu, Mar 03 2016

    Nach Na Aye ...

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  • Mohan, Manipal

    Thu, Mar 03 2016

    Before showing your fingers to others just check yourself what you have done till now

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  • Manoj, Udupi

    Thu, Mar 03 2016

    Nothing big zero..... Lol

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  • Raviraj Shetty, Mangalore/UAE

    Fri, Mar 04 2016

    He is good for showing fingers and throwing hands in the air... soon people will start showing him different finger.

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  • Umesh, Udupi

    Thu, Mar 03 2016

    PM only know to complaint like a kid

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