With five months remaining in the financial year, the Kerala Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) mission has completed allocation of 4.8 crore person days of work out of a total of 6 crore person days allowed by the Union government for the year.
The State had earlier made a demand for funds to provide 10 crore person days of work for the year, but was provided only just above half of that. Kerala is now planning to raise further demands to sustain the programme through the year.
According to MGNREGS State mission officials, the allocated 6 crore person days of work is expected to be exhausted within the next two months as per the current demand.