Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday, March 14, 2024 wrote to the Union government requesting to disburse the MGNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) total wage liability amount to the tune of ₹1,678.83 crore accumulated up to January 5, 2024.
In his letter to Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Giriraj Singh, Mr. Stalin sought his personal intervention in this regard.
Till March 6 this year, Tamil Nadu have achieved 40.51 crore persondays as against the labour budget of 37 crore persondays by providing employment to 79.28 lakh workers pertaining to 68.68 lakh households.