Around 27 lakh MGNREGS workers were deleted across India between October 10 and November 14, a report said, flagging the large volume as “highly unusual”.

According to a report by Lib Tech India, a consortium of academicians and activists, around 10.5 lakh workers were added to the flagship rural livelihood scheme during the same period of time.

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"Such a large volume of deletions concentrated in one month is highly unusual," the six-monthly report on the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005, said.

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), better known as MGNREGA or NREGA, is a flagship scheme aimed at enhancing

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