Mixed payment mode for MGNREGS wages to continue till March 31If the beneficiary is linked with ABPS then payment can be made through ABPS only, and if the beneficiary is not linked with ABPS due to so...
20 Mar, 2023, 07.28 AM IST
Rural ministry offered guaranteed employment to 99.34% households who demanded work: Govt“As on February 4, 2022, employment has been offered to 7.56 crore households in the current financial year under the Mahatma Gandhi Nation...
09 Feb, 2022, 08.32 PM IST
Rs 1.12 lakh crore outstanding loan with SHGs under DAY-NRLM; 97.17% repayment rate“Loans are sanctioned by the banks in the name of SHGs. Distribution of loan to individual SHG members is done by the SHG, which is used by...
30 Jul, 2021, 05.54 PM IST
MGNREGA has already used up over half of its annual funds this fiscalIn 2020-21, the government had raised the budgetary allocation for the scheme by Rs 40,000 crore taking the total spent on Mgnrega to Rs 1,...
27 Jul, 2021, 02.00 PM IST
Women participation in MGNREGA declines to five-year low in 2020-21: Rural development ministry“The Mgnrega Act requires that priority be given to women in such a way that at least one-third of the beneficiaries be women. Several meas...
23 Mar, 2021, 02.10 PM IST
MGNREGA played a critical role in providing wage employment during the pandemic, says TomarAccording to Tomar, out of total person days generated about 52% women persondays have been generated in the current financial year which r...
24 Feb, 2021, 02.48 PM IST
Migrant workers returning, getting work: Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar"As per the information gathered, around one crore labourers returned to their home states from their workplace States. But, now most of th...
10 Feb, 2021, 02.27 PM IST
Person days under MGNREGS go up by 52.1 per cent during April-AugustEven the household demanding work under the scheme was up by 41.8% in the April-August period with 14.89 crore households demanding work in...
18 Sep, 2020, 02.01 PM IST
Demand for work under MGNREGA shot up 38.79% in current fiscal“Total 22.49 crore sought work under the scheme in the current financial year until September 12, 2020 compared to 16.2 crore during the co...
15 Sep, 2020, 04.51 PM IST
Govt hikes wages under rural employment guarantee schemeThe average hike of Rs 20 in the wages of rural workers is part of the Rs 1.7 lakh crore fiscal package announced recently to mitigate the ...
31 Mar, 2020, 12.01 PM IST
MGNREGA may get linked with CPI-RMinistry of rural development currently revises the unskilled wage rate under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme...
22 Nov, 2019, 01.48 PM IST
Young population weaning away from rural employment guarantee scheme: Narendra Singh TomarAs per the Management Information System (MIS), the average share of workforce under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS in the age group of 18-30 in 2018...
19 Nov, 2019, 05.07 PM IST
Big Budget number! Rs 60,000 crore set aside for MGNREGA this yearAnnouncing the highest-ever allocation to MGNREGA in his 2015-16 Budget speech, Jaitley gave Rs 34,699 crore to the scheme, nearly 12 per c...
01 Feb, 2019, 11.26 AM IST
Government on the job for cleanup of NREG schemeThe deprivation data of Socio and Economic Caste Census (SECC) is being used to identify the poor households who have not been covered by N...
15 Feb, 2017, 01.28 AM IST
FM Arun Jaitley pledges more funds for MGNREGAThis would be the first year when there would not be any cut in the allocation in NREGS or any other social sector scheme. We will in fact ...
03 Feb, 2016, 06.56 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi to visit Andhra Pradesh on February 2 to mark 10th anniversary of NREGSRahul Gandhi will visit Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh to mark the 10th anniversary of the launch of the National Rural Employment Gu...
26 Jan, 2016, 10.10 PM IST
Narendra Modi government sets ambitious asset creation targets for MGNREGSThe government said delayed payments have been slashed by 72% and it wants to bring down the level to single digits by June.
21 Jan, 2016, 04.00 AM IST