UPA flagship schemes fail to meet 50% target

None of the major development programmes being initiated by the Rural Development (RD) Ministry has met even the 50 per cent target, both fiscally and physically. Beginning with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the UPA government’s much-hyped job guarantee scheme, to National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY)  to National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), all the programmes have been underutilised.

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