Inaugurating a Kudumbasree Sangamam at Poothadi Grama Panchayat in his constituency here, the Congress leader said the Congress works for t...

The 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 ...

Proportion of households participating in MGNREGA plumetted from 32.5% in 2012/13 to 11.80% in 2014/15, a reduction of about 64%.

The revised MGNREGA wages have left various state governments in a quandary as they apprehend the new rates would not be able to attract la...

The government has dropped the idea of changing the wage calculation formula for its flagship rural jobs programme but has increased the wa...

Government will introduce the system for electronic transfer of wages to the beneficiaries from January 1 next year in Kerala.

In districts represented by top Congress leaders shows delays in payments to about 50% of beneficiaries, in some cases in excess of three m...

Wages under the government’s flagship rural job guarantee scheme are set to rise 11.4% from April 1.

NHRC issued notices to Rural Development ministry and chief secretaries of seven states in connection with the non-payment of wages under M...

NREGA wage is below the minimum wage rates in eight states, five of them are ruled by Congress or its ally.

The govt expressed its willingness to consider Bihar's demand to ensure parity between wages under the rural employment scheme and minimum ...

The government has made it mandatory for village panchayats to attach a Chartered Accountant's certificate on spendings incurred under MGNR...

The central government is considering changes in the law to specify a separate wage norms for its flagship rural employment guarantee schem...

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...

The Centre may create a new category under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 for resolving the conflict with NREGS & minimum wages

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...

The new wages are based on the consumer price index (CPI), as suggested by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and are retrospectively effective...