Sonia Gandhi demands Rs 400 minimum wage, 150 workdays under MGNREGASonia Gandhi has urged the government to increase minimum wages and guarantee more workdays under the MGNREGA scheme. She emphasized that f...
Budget must increase MGNREGA wages: CongressThe Congress has demanded the Union Budget increase MGNREGA wages to Rs 400 per day and to abandon mandatory Aadhar-based payments. They al...
Too early to make Aadhaar based system mandatory for MGNREGS payments: Parliamentary panelA parliamentary panel has advised against mandating the Aadhaar-based payment system for MGNREGS, citing potential worker exclusion. They a...
MGNREGS demand-driven scheme, not possible to fix enrolment targets: GovtThe rural development ministry clarified that despite reports of a drop in MGNREGS enrolment, targets cannot be set mid-year due to the dem...
Modi govt 'killing off' MGNREGA by 'cutting budgets', 'delaying payments', alleges CongressChairman All-India Unorganized Workers and Employees Congress Udit Raj said the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 200...
Parliamentary standing panel questions new attendance and payment systems for MGNREGS workersAs MGNREGS beneficiaries protest against non-payment and delayed payment of wages across states and at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, the stan...
Number of person days generated under MGNREGA drops in Jan-Feb periodThe number of person days of work generated under MGNREGA in January and February 2023, following the implementation of the National Mobile...
Government unlikely to budge on NREGS attendanceCapturing workers' attendance through a mobile application, National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS), was made mandatory since January 1. I...
From people's scheme to tech quagmire: How digital 'surgical strike' hits MGNREGA workersThe latest digitisation efforts, ostensibly to weed out corruption and ensure fiscal transparency, have deviated from the primary objective...