Budget 2014: Arun Jaitley Seeks to Revamp UPA's Rural Employment Scheme

New Delhi: Sticking to his pre-budget resolve, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley proposed a drastic restructuring of social welfare schemes such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA),  the UPA government's showpiece rural development project, and said jobs would henceforth be provided through "works that are more productive, asset creating and substantially linked to agriculture an allied activiti...