Ramaswami: Highlighting the issues of livelihood of the rural poor, the AIAWU said that the government is deliberately working to dilute the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) which can be seen in the decrease in the budget allocations by 13.3 per cent which amounts to Rs 9,501 crore. While the allocation for MNREGA was Rs 71,001 crore for the year 2019-20, it has been now cut down to Rs 61,500 crore in the current budget. The share of the allocations in the union budget was drastically reduced from 4 per cent in 2009 to only 2 per cent in 2020.