Agartala, March 15: Despite declining sanction of funds from the Centre, Tripura is all set to emerge as the best implementing state of MGNREGA scheme. Disclosing this to reporters, minister for rural development Naresh Jamatya said up to March 13 in the current financial year Tripura had succeeded in creating 72 man days of work to clinch the top position. "Tripura is followed by Maharashtra which created 49 man days of work while Rajasthan created only 47 man days of MGNREGA work," Jamatya said. He said funds sanction for MGNREGA work has increased for the financial year 2015-16 compared to what it was in 2014-15. Jamatya, however, could not give details of the increased fund, saying the picture would be clear only after March 31 when the profile of sanction will be available to the state government from the central budget. Shortly after assuming power last year, the Narendra Modi-led NDA government had curtailed the scope of MGNREGA work from all 58 blocks in the state to the 15 most backward blocks. Whether the increased sanction will cover all the blocks of the state is still not clear. However, in a review meeting of rural development department's work held yesterday, chief minister Manik Sarkar directed all the district magistrates to concentrate on giving MGNREGA work to needy people in all the blocks. "There will be no dearth of funds as the state government will meet the increased expenses from its own resources," the chief minister told the meeting. Apart from this, the chief minister also approved a special scheme of Nirmal Gram programme, which will be implemented to ensure supply of pipeline drinking water to 475 of altogether 527 villages under the autonomous district council. "Every year we face problems in arranging water for the hill-top villages in the dry season but this chronic problem must be resolved permanently and that can be done if we can ensure supply of pipeline water to all the ADC villages. In the first phase, 475 villages will be covered and then the rest," Sarkar said. Sarkar also laid stress on initiating measures from the village level to prevent outbreak of water-borne diseases, which has become an annual feature of the state. "While the health service of the state government is ready to work hard we must have information in time to take appropriate action and that information can emanate from the grassroots level. The district magistrates and other officials at the district, subdivision and block level must be alert about this and ensure inflow of information," said Sarkar.