Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend

Since 2019, the budget allocation for the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) that has 129 million active workers has been consistently lower than or at most same as the previous year’s revised estimates

Migrant workers from various eastern states in Ernakulam say that returning home to vote means job loss and incurring high expenses which many do not want to risk