Congress hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's national address, calling it a 'distress address'. The party challenged the PM to bring...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said what unfolded on the streets was the "final cry" of this nation's workers and said the burden of US tarif...

AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge accused the BJP-led central government of turning Governors into "puppets" to harass non-BJP ruled states...

The latest digitisation efforts, ostensibly to weed out corruption and ensure fiscal transparency, have deviated from the primary objective...

In a series of tweets, Chidambaram said, "The government's excuse for scrapping the Maulana Azad National Fellowship and the subsidy for ed...

The employees of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme are protesting since April for various demands, including re...

“The committee strongly recommends the department of rural development to undertake a holistic review of the scheme MGNREGA in such a way w...

Labour participation in rural jobs scheme MGNREGA has drastically come down from the levels seen in April in Uttar Pradesh, even though man...

The government has specified that work finished under MGNREGA will either create a new asset or will link up to an existing asset earlier c...

For smooth fund flow, the electronic Fund Management System (e-FMS) has been made mandatory from April 1 this year.

It is time for those arguing against social protection expenditures to take note and stop undermining such schemes. The state government ne...

The programme will also strive to group workers into labour cooperatives, training and equipping them so that they seek contract work with ...

Beauty parlour work, hairdressing have emerged as some of the most sought-after skills among beneficiaries of the rural jobs programme unde...

The project, named Livelihoods in Full Employment, has identified 14 lakh households which have completed 100 days work in 2014-15, the min...

'LIFE-MGNREGA' is likely to be implemented in the middle of July and states have been asked to prepare their plans.

Rahul Gandhi today ridiculed Mayawati government's decision to sack four ministers a day after the announcement of assembly polls.

Despite its seminal success in beginning a process of addressing issues of poverty, starvation and empowering the poor, the MGNREGA needed ...