Highest-ever allocation to MGNREGA at ₹48,000cr for 2017-18
In the 2017 Budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday announced that the government will allocate the highest-ever budget to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) at ₹48,000 crore from about ₹37,000 crore. He also added that the participation of women in the MGNREGA programme has reached an all-time high at 55%.