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Modi govt 'killing off' MGNREGA by 'cutting budgets', 'delaying payments', alleges CongressChairman All-India Unorganized Workers and Employees Congress Udit Raj said the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 200...
From people's scheme to tech quagmire: How digital 'surgical strike' hits MGNREGA workersThe latest digitisation efforts, ostensibly to weed out corruption and ensure fiscal transparency, have deviated from the primary objective...
PM Modi slashed fuel prices, gave free vaccines; TMC into narrow politics over central schemes: BJPTaking a dig at the TMC boss, BJP state spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said Banerjee, despite observing July 21 as Martyrs' Day in memory ...
In UP, Congress trains workers to battle ‘myths’ about Nehru, party’s historyAs part of its campaign in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, the Congress is training its office-bearers to counter the “misinformation against the...
BJP chalks out strategies to target Odisha govt over inter- state border disputes, political violenceOdisha's principal opposition party, during its state executive meeting on Sunday, called upon its members to put in additional efforts to ...
Chhattisgarh turned 20; Bhupesh Baghel govt battled pandemic, naxalsChhattisgarh also remained in news this year due to the killing of 17 security personnel by naxals, Income Tax departments raids on the pre...
View: Why an urban job guarantee scheme is a bad ideaSince a guaranteed urban wage can be double the MGNREGA rate, any given budget outlay can create up to twice as many jobs in rural as in ur...
View: Migration, not MGNREGA, is India’s most successful anti-poverty programmeCensus data shows that individuals migrating for work rose from 30 million in 2001 to 41 million in 2011. This was the very period when Ind...
SP leader murder: Yogi govt says MGNREGA road work only after dispute resolutionA Samajwadi Party leader Chhote Lal Diwakar and his son Sunil were shot dead in broad daylight in the Sambhal district of UP on Tuesday ove...
Red flag stalled development in Tripura: PM Modi"You have to stop before a red traffic signal.Even if you are in a hurry, you cannot go ahead.Similarly the red flags of the Left Front hav...
Government must waive farmers' loans: Sitaram YechurySlamming the Modi govt on the demonetisation issue, Yechury said it is saving the "looters" while "punishing" the poor as "more than 74" pe...
Arun Jaitley is one million percent wrong about Kashmir issue: Mani Shankar Aiyar"Kashmiris were infuriated that PM Modi didn't say a word on their suffering in his Independence Day speech," Mani Shankar Aiyar said.
It’s the responsibility of PM to grant special status to AP, says Rahul GandhiAICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday came down heavily on the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre for denying the special category ...
Citing Bihar win, Rahul Gandhi calls for unity to defeat BJP in AssamCongress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today accused PM Modi of only making empty poll promises and creating differences between people in a ...
Rahul Gandhi ridicules Narendra Modi’s Gujarat development model againRahul said some leaders were playing the caste and communal cards in these elections, whereas his party was working for a strong and united...
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...
- MNREGS hinders micro enterprises in villages, says ISB study
High agricultural wages due to the success of MNREGS has hindered the development of micro enterprises in the hinterlands, says a paper by ...