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Lok Sabha adjourned briefly over MGNREGAThe Lok Sabha was adjourned for 15 minutes after Congress, DMK, and TMC MPs protested delays in MGNREGA fund clearances for Tamil Nadu, Wes...
Govt rejects allegations of bias in MGNREGA fund release amid opposition protest in Lok SabhaOpposition MPs in the Lok Sabha protested over delayed MGNREGA payments, with Kerala and Tamil Nadu raising concerns on pending funds. Mini...
Demand under MGNREGS is not a true indicator of rural distress: Eco SurveyThe Economic Survey 2023-24 indicates that MGNREGS demand is not a true indicator of rural distress. Despite high rural unemployment, state...
Rahul Gandhi takes dig at PM Modi for ridiculing MGNREGAInaugurating a Kudumbasree Sangamam at Poothadi Grama Panchayat in his constituency here, the Congress leader said the Congress works for t...
Government to rework baseline for paying MNREGA wagesThe daily wage under the MNREGA has risen by just Re 1 in Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, by Rs 2 in Odisha and by ...
POKE ME: The social security measure seems doomed with budgetary cutbacks and frequent wage hikesProportion of households participating in MGNREGA plumetted from 32.5% in 2012/13 to 11.80% in 2014/15, a reduction of about 64%.
New MGNREGA wages leave states in a quandaryThe revised MGNREGA wages have left various state governments in a quandary as they apprehend the new rates would not be able to attract la...
Government increases wages for NREGS by about 6%, no revision in pay calculation formulaThe government has dropped the idea of changing the wage calculation formula for its flagship rural jobs programme but has increased the wa...
Government to start electronic transfer of MGNREGA wages from 2016 in KeralaGovernment will introduce the system for electronic transfer of wages to the beneficiaries from January 1 next year in Kerala.
Congress ruled states worst performers in MGNREGA implementationIn districts represented by top Congress leaders shows delays in payments to about 50% of beneficiaries, in some cases in excess of three m...
Labourers to get higher wages under MNREGSWages under the government’s flagship rural job guarantee scheme are set to rise 11.4% from April 1.
NHRC seeks reply from Centre, 7 states on MGNREGA paymentsNHRC issued notices to Rural Development ministry and chief secretaries of seven states in connection with the non-payment of wages under M...
House panel seeks parity between NREGA, minimum state wagesNREGA wage is below the minimum wage rates in eight states, five of them are ruled by Congress or its ally.
Jairam Ramesh sympathises with Nitish Kumar on rural wages schemeThe govt expressed its willingness to consider Bihar's demand to ensure parity between wages under the rural employment scheme and minimum ...
- Village panchayats to give CA's certificate on NREGA spendings
The government has made it mandatory for village panchayats to attach a Chartered Accountant's certificate on spendings incurred under MGNR...
Legal changes to enable separate NREGA wagesThe central government is considering changes in the law to specify a separate wage norms for its flagship rural employment guarantee schem...
- Supreme Court upholds verdict matching NREGA pay with state wages
The Supreme Court has refused to stay a recent Karnataka High Court verdict that has said the central government is liable to pay higher wa...
- Jairam Ramesh writes to PM to resolve conflict between NREGS & minimum wages
The Centre may create a new category under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 for resolving the conflict with NREGS & minimum wages
- Need to bring farm work under modified NREGS: Gulati
If MGNREGA wages are taken as the floor price, or a sort of MSP for farm labour, then costs for this key input have shot up between 18% and...
- 30% pay hike for workers under NREGS
The new wages are based on the consumer price index (CPI), as suggested by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and are retrospectively effective...