The Rural Development Ministry is reviewing its key schemes in response to the West Asia conflict's potential impact on global supply chain...

The VB-G RAM G scheme, set to replace MGNREGA, has received the largest share of the Budget for the Department of Rural Development, accoun...

A new rural employment law, VB-G RAM G, will soon replace the current program. It guarantees 125 days of work, an increase from 100 days. F...

A parliamentary panel has raised concerns about the unchanged funding for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Th...

The finance ministry is considering releasing additional funds for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) ...

The Rural Development Ministry in India received a budget allocation of Rs 1.88 lakh crore for 2025-26, marking a 5.75% increase from the p...

The rural development ministry has pegged the 2024-25 person-day generation target (called labour budget) at 2.21 billion under the Mahatma...

MGNREGS received additional ₹3,400 crore, raising total allocation to ₹89,400 crore. Person-days exceeded targets. 10% wage hike during 8.4...

In the upcoming interim budget for FY25, the Indian government is expected to allocate around ₹88,000 crore for the Mahatma Gandhi National...

In reply to a question on the MGNREGS funds being exhausted, Minister of State for Rural Development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti said the Union g...

Nearly 95% of the budgetary allocation for FY24 has already been released. The additional funds will be included in the first batch of supp...

Demand for work under India's rural employment scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), has increas...

A high-level government panel, tasked with recommending changes to make the rural job guarantee scheme more effective, has called for a sig...

The government has budgeted ₹60,000 crore under the scheme for FY24, lower than the budget estimate of ₹73,000 crore and revised estimate o...

In the Union Budget for 2022-23, an amount of Rs 73,000 crore was allocated for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Sche...

The document stated that, as per quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data, up to March 2021, employment in urban sector affected ...

Delay in the financial audit of MGNREGS, the government’s flagship rural job guarantee scheme, is the key reason why several states have no...