New draft rules are out for the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin). This new scheme replaces MGNREGA and wi...

A new rural employment law, VB-G RAM G Act, will replace MGNREGA on July 1. It guarantees 125 days of work annually, focusing on infrastruc...

Migrant workers are again facing hardship. Protests erupt over low wages and poor conditions. Government policies lag behind rising costs. ...

The number of person days of work generated under MGNREGA in January and February 2023, following the implementation of the National Mobile...

Government data showed 18.1 million rural households got work under the scheme in December compared to 15.8 million in November, a growth o...

Data from the Mgnrega website showed that work generation under the scheme went up by 19.4% in November to 194 million persondays compared ...

Personday work generated under the scheme was also 41.9% lower at 16.15 crore as against 27.82 crore in August 2021. The trend is in line w...

The list is likely to be ready by this month-end and Singh would call a meeting of rural development ministers of all states to discuss the...

Data from Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act website shows work provided to households in June stood at 27.2 million co...

Data from the MGNREGA website showed that work provided to households under the scheme was 9.9% higher in May, at 24.4 million, compared to...

However, it is 36.5% higher than pre-pandemic period, showing high dependence on the scheme for livelihood

The fall in work generation in August is in line with fall in demand for work under the scheme, indicating an uptick in economic activity p...

The district has also topped in the state under the expenditure by spending around Rs 220.8 crore so far. It, however, ranked 12 in the sta...

The statistics of the rural development ministry reveal that there has been a fall in the number of person days generated and gram panchaya...

This is primarily on the back of drying of funds under the scheme as some states which are traditionally more active have either exhausted ...

More and more families hit by the Covid storm are seeking shelter under MGNREGA.

55 percent of the total beneficiaries were women, a large quantum of whom is from scheduled caste, scheduled tribes and other vulnerable se...