Hyderabad, June 12 -- Union Coal and Mines minister G Kishan Reddy has urged the Telangana government to immediately issue a notification for the implementation of the VBRMG scheme and allocate its share of funds, as the programme is to be financed jointly by the centre and the state in a 60:40 ratio.

Ahead of the nationwide rollout of the VBRMG scheme on July 1, Kishan Reddy, along with Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, reviewed the preparedness of Telangana and sought details regarding the scheme's implementation in the state.

In a statement released on Thursday, June 11, Kishan Reddy said that under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the central government had generated Rs 1...