AGARTALA, June 28 (TIWN): Tripura government has increased the daily wage rate under MGNREGA scheme from Rs 177 to Rs 192 per day, PTI reported.

The government claimed that it has generated more man- days under the rural employment guarantee scheme in last one year than done by the erstwhile Left Front ministry. The BJP-IPFT coalition government assumed office in Tripura in March last year by ending the two-and-a-half decade old communist rule. Deputy Chief Minister, Jishnu Devvarma, on Friday told reporters that during the left front government's tenure in 2017-2018 financial years altogether 28.46 lakh man-days were created, but in the last fiscal (2018-2019) it increased to 34.67 lakh. The opposition Left Front always blamed us that we shrinked the rural job during our tenure, but the facts remain that in our tenure it has increased, Devvarma, who also holds the Finance and Rural Development portfolios, said.