MGNREGS budget for 2024 lowest in 8 years after high of Covid times
Thursday, 2 February 2023 Adjusted for inflation, the Rs 60,000 crore allocated to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in the Budget for next year is the lowest allocation since 2016-17. This is despite a government assessment of the scheme hailing it as “a powerful instrument for inclusive growth in rural India”.
India witnessed a single-day rise of 3,095 fresh Covid-19 cases with the active caseload increasing to 15,208, according to Union Health ministry data updated on.. IndiaTimes
US Economic Growth , Lost Momentum in 2022.
CNN reports that the U.S.
economy grew at a slower pace than
economists had predicted in the fourth quarter. .
For the last three months of 2022, inflation-adjusted
gross domestic product increased 2.6%, according
to the U.S. Commerce Department. .
The department's third and final
reading for the quarter was
originally estimated to be 2.9%. .
The actual GDP, the broadest measure of economic
activity, ended up coming in below the
department's revised estimate of 2.7%.
According to Refinitiv, economists
had also predicted that GDP would hold
steady at 2.7%, which it failed to do.
Associated Press reports that in 2022,
the U.S. economy expanded just 2.1%,
a significant drop from 5.9% in 2021. .
Overall, the report suggests
the economy was losing
momentum at the end of 2022. .
Previously, the government had
estimated a 1.4% increase
in consumer spending. .
Previously, the government had
estimated a 1.4% increase
in consumer spending. .
The annual consumer spending
rate in 2022 ended up rising
just 1% last quarter. .
AP reports that it was the weakest quarterly
gain since the COVID pandemic first impacted
the economy in the spring of 2020.
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Shilpa Shetty’s husband and businessman Raj Kundra has tested positive for COVID-19, again. As per reports, Raj Kundra is in isolation, away from his dear family.
Meanwhile, popular television actress Mahhi Vij has also tested positive for Covid-19, she has revealed she tested positive for COVID-19, On Thursday, She took to Instagram and shared her health update. She said that 'this time around the strain is more severe than the previous one.' A few days back Pooja Bhatt shared an update that she has been tested positive for COVID-19. She took to her social media handle and asked everyone to mask up and to take care as COVID-19 is still very much a reality. Not only Pooja Bhatt, Anupam Kher's wife Kirron Kher, too shared that she had tested positive for COVID-19. She took to her social media handle and asked the others who met her in the past few days to get themselves tested.
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The Delhi government has issued an advisory regarding the rise in Covid cases in the national capital, with the likelihood of masks being brought back to the.. DNA