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

Kerala and Tamil Nadu utilize more MGNREGS funds despite having fewer poor, unlike Bihar and UP. No link with unemployment rates. Instituti...

The Economic Survey 2023-24 indicates that MGNREGS demand is not a true indicator of rural distress. Despite high rural unemployment, state...

Tamil Nadu and Bihar are a study in contrast, admit senior government officials and experts. Over the past five years, Tamil Nadu accounted...

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

Gandhi recalls the UPA government's initiative of guaranteeing the right to work and highlights the importance of MGNREGS as a safety net a...

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

MGNREGS wages of about ₹35,000-40,000 crore are estimated to have gone into the construction of houses under the PMAY (Gramin) since the sc...

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

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...

As MGNREGS beneficiaries protest against non-payment and delayed payment of wages across states and at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, the stan...

Depriving the poor of their dues is tantamount to forced labour and a violation of constitutional norms, TMC MP Mahua Moitra said. The BJP ...

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...

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

Singh has written to Arun Jaitley seeking the release of more funds to “liquidate pending liabilities (of states) and for smooth implementa...

The state Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya today said that the Bengal govt is misusing NREGA funds.