Trinamool Congress intensifies protest over MNREGA dues in Assembly premisesTrinamool MLAs and ministers held a sit-in-protest in front of the statue of Dr B R Ambedkar in the Assembly premises from Tuesday after th...
20 lakh people waiting to get their MNREGA dues in Bengal: Abhishek BanerjeeBanerjee spoke about “free and fair poll” in the Panchayat election. He said that “there is attempt to deprive the people of Bengal. It is ...
Mamata Banerjee hits out at Centre for price rise of essential commoditiesMamata Banerjee, while addressing a North Bengal rally, said the common people are being fooled by the Centre and they are suffering due to...
Unemployment in poll-bound UP falls sharply thanks to MNREGAAn analysis by State Bank of India research team shows that among the major states, unemployment dipped sharply in poll bound UP in the sam...
62.42 per cent MNREGA wages get delayed: GovernmentAs per the programme management information system, 62.42% of the total wages paid under the employment guarantee scheme got delayed, said ...
Do not bet on MNREGA to save the poor, capital-intensive rural investment is the solution: SA AiyarMNREGA has gender advantages, but India’s soaring wages after 2008 were driven mainly by high agricultural prices and fast GDP growth.
Rahul Gandhi riles at PM Narendra Modi for criticising UPA-era MNREGARahul was addressing a huge gathering of farmers in Dabhra village of this district after concluding his 10-km-long march on foot which beg...
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh slams AAP for farmer suicide in Delhi rallyHe said it seemed that the man was made to climb the tree to create "nautanki" (show) as AAP workers were indulging in sloganeering and cla...
Nitin Gadkari attacks Jairam Ramesh's move to converge MNREGA, NBAGadkari today targeted initiative taken by Ramesh, saying a convergence between MNREGA and toilet construction programme did not work well.
Government gears up to tackle possible droughtA monitoring cell has been constituted in the Rural Dev Min to monitor preparedness of states for anticipated drought under ambitious rural...
Weak monsoon: Government gears up to tackle possible droughtA monitoring cell has been constituted in the Rural Development Ministry to monitor preparedness of states for anticipated drought, officia...
NDA government to bring broad changes in MNREGANDA to bring broad changes in the rural job guarantee scheme launched by UPA by proposing at least Rs 25,000 cr investment into agriculture...
- Distress migration from rural areas has gone down: CAG
Distress migration from rural areas has gone down due to implementation of the Centre's ambitious rural job scheme, according to the survey...
MNREGA is in fragile state: Jean DrezeLeading economist-activist Jean Dreze has asked the government to bring "some accountability" in the "very fragile" programme.
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has potential to bring second green revolution: Sonia GandhiThe Prime Minister said around eight crore people have benefited from the scheme so far and an amount of Rs 1.3 lakh crore has reached them...
- Distress migration from rural areas have gone down: Jairam Ramesh
"Distress migration from rural areas have gone down due to implementation of Centre's ambitious rural job scheme", Ramesh said.
- Agriculture workers may get foodgrains as part of MNREGA wages: Sharad Pawar
The Centre today said it is examining a proposal to provide foodgrains as part of wage payments to agriculture workers under MNREGA.