Government data showed 18.1 million rural households got work under the scheme in December compared to 15.8 million in November, a growth o...

"The employment generation capacity of rural India is committed. Till the time farm jobs pick up in February, the MGNREGA demand will be un...

Demand for work has been fluctuating month on month. Demand for work by households stood at 15.5 million in October and that by individuals...

Household demand for work under the rural employment guarantee scheme stood at 23.2 million in April, 30.7 million in May, 31.7 million in ...

Government data showed that demand for household and individual segments under the scheme was up more than 5% in September compared to Augu...

The fall in the number last month was largely on the back of a pickup in agricultural activities, as labour demand has shot up for kharif c...

Data shows month-on-month household demand jumped 32% in May to 3.07 crore compared to 2.32 crore in April 2022, while the year-on-year inc...

The decline in work generation corroborates with the decline in demand for work under the rural guarantee scheme, which has witnessed a yea...

Demand for work under the flagship rural jobs scheme also remained among the lowest in the fiscal, with only October and November witnessin...

The other major change under consideration is restoration of the threshold on the number of employees in an organisation to 100 from the pr...

Year-on-year, the personday work generated under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (Mnrega) scheme fell by 50.5% again...

Cumulatively, 4.51 million informal workers have been enrolled till October after the scheme was rolled out three years ago. This is, howev...

India's already low female workforce participation has been skewed further by the pandemic with female workforce still in high double-digit...

Wage rate under the index is the sum of basic wage and dearness allowance in respect of workers who receive both these components while for...

The demand during the month has been the highest in any April since compilation of the data started in 2013, suggesting the pressure on hin...

The national social security board will recommend to the Centre suitable social security schemes for different sections of unorganised work...

The ceiling will exclude employers from benefiting from the subsidy for jobs that pay even slightly more than ₹15,000 but well within wage ...