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He writes a letter to Union Rural Development Minister Tomar seeking consent to do so.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, in a letter to Union Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, has actually asked the Centre to allow payment of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) salaries in the kind of food grains.
Mr. Baghel stated that the State was using five lakh workers every day under the scheme. He included that the livelihood of over 62.5 lakh persons in the State depended on MGNREGA and it was necessary that the work continued in this hour of