₹1,100-crore NREGS bills will be cleared in a month, Andhra Pradesh govt. tells HC
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The State government on Wednesday told the High Court that it would clear the bills pertaining to the works undertaken under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) amounting to about ₹1,100 crore in a month and maintained that the State was yet to receive more than ₹400 crore from the Central government. Principal Secretary (Panchayat Raj & Rural Development) Gopal Krishna Dwivedi and Commissioner M. Girija Shankar and Principal Secretary (Finance) S.S. Rawat made the submission in person before a Division Bench of the High Court comprising Justice C. Praveen Kumar and Justice B. Krishna Mohan during hearing on a batch of petitions related to the alleged pending bills.
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