Nearly 27 lakh MGNREGS workers were removed from the scheme in just over a month. This deletion surge occurred as e-KYC became mandatory. T...

A parliamentary panel has advised against mandating the Aadhaar-based payment system for MGNREGS, citing potential worker exclusion. They a...

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...

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...

The deadline for implementing the Aadhaar-based payment system as the only mode of payment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employme...

The ministry has asserted that workers will not be refused work if they do not have an Aadhaar number. So far, around 74.9 per cent active ...

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said 27 lakh people in the State depend on the MGNREGS and the Left government intends to make use of the s...

In a letter to states, the ministry of rural development has asked them to try and ensure that this exercise is over by May end, a senior 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 ...

The MGNREGA ensures legal rights of wage employment to the adults (of rural households) willing to do unskilled manual labour for 100 days ...

It said that timely wage payment under MGNREGA is expected to increase work demand.

Timely payment of wages under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has been a major concern for the governme...

This comes even as the passage of the Aadhaar Act as a money bill has been challenged before the SC by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.

"To reduce the suffering of farmers, adequate fund flow under MGNRES may be ensured by the Centre to the state government," Patnaik said in...