Support for major rural schemes down

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Support for major rural schemes down The budget raised funding for NRLM from ₹13,336 crore in 2022-23 to ₹14,129 crore in 2023-24. But funds for the rural development department was slashed from ₹1.81 trillion in 2022-23 (RE) to ₹1.57 trillion in 2023-24 (BE), largely on account of the drop in funding for the rural jobs scheme