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On MNREGA, Kharge said while the government claimed that funds allocated this financial year are the highest, the figures tell a different tale.

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These have happened in the past, it will happen in future too till our nation is troubled," Kharge said.

"You take credit for it (but) it was the soldiers who staked their lives," the Congress leader said and questioned why the Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir government did not address the situation in that state to ensure there were no terror attacks there.

On MNREGA, Kharge said while the government claimed that funds allocated this financial year are the highest, the figures tell a different tale.

He said the MNREGA allocation was 2.15 per cent in 2012-13 of the total budget, 2.12 per cent in 2013-14, 1.98 per cent in 2014-15, 2.09 per cent in 2015-16, 2.36 per cent in 2016-17.

However, the allocation was 2.24 per cent in 2017-18 when it should have been at least 90,000 crore proportionate to the total volume of the overall Budget.

He said even the mandays under the NDA government have not increased and average employment per household was 33 days against 100 days.

The PM had said earlier that MNREGA was a "monumental failure" of Congress but the same came handy when there was drought in several parts of the country last year, he said.

Hitting out at the government over the merger of the railway budget and putting an end to a 92 year-old tradition, he said it has ended the autonomy of the railways.

"This is a move to weaken the railways. You don't cut your head if you have a headache, chop off your nose if you are sneezing. Instead you treat it.

"They say that the railways have to pay dividend to the Finance Ministry. Instead of putting an end to the railway budget, they should have funded railways the way give money for national highways.

"Now the railways have before Jaitley and Finance Ministry officials for funds," Kharge said.

He also questioned the progress on the bullet trains project, saying even land has not been acquired even after two-and-half years after announcement of the project.

Trying to pick holes in the functioning of the railways, Kharge said there were 62 derailments in 2016, a rise by over 70 per cent. "How efficiently you manage the railways," he said, taking a jibe at the government. (More)

 

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