SRINAGAR : The Union Government has told the Lok Sabha that Jammu and Kashmir has deleted more than 2.7 lakh job cards under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) since 2019, with Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan responding to a starred question raised by Lalji Verma and Sachithanantham R. Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

Responding to the detailed queries, the Minister said that job card deletions are a routine process carried out by States and UTs to remove fake, duplicate or incorrect entries, or those on families that have permanently migrated, deaths of single-member households, and villages that have been reclassified as urban. According to the data placed before the House, Jammu and Kashmir recorded 33,032

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