Mango plantation: A reminder of how NREGA can tremendously contribute to rural developmentWhichever way you look at it, the IRR is really high: 31% in the baseline scenario. Even in an ultra-conservative scenario where the baseli...
Methodical implementation of NREGA in BurdwanA number of schemes taken up in the flood-prone, drought-prone and agricultural areas led to the retrieving and restoring of around 1157 ac...
NREGA is in need of reform: Jean Dreze, economist-cum-activist"While there’s no need to ‘capitulate’ to corporate interests, the NREGA could do with simplification, besides a perk-up in transparency."
Textiles Ministry for inclusion of handloom weavers under NREGATextiles Ministry is working on a proposal to include handloom weavers under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA).
Nitish Kumar writes to Prime Minister seeking higher wages under NREGANitish Kumar is leveraging his politically 'unattached' status to seek higher wages for his people under the Centre's NREGA scheme.
CAG might fault NREGA but not the carmakersNREGA, the world's biggest-ever employment guarantee scheme, captured the public imagination well before the first ditch was dug.
- Must resolve problem of delayed payment under NREGA: Manmohan Singh
The PM sought concurrent audit of rural development schemes even as he termed NREGA as a 'story worth telling'.
NREGA 2.0: Does it have what it takes to be the poor's portal to a brighter future?From a backstopping social safety net, NREGA aspires to be the poor's portal to a brighter future. For a scheme that continues to polarise ...
- Growth is necessary to remove poverty, and interventions like NREGA help
Growth is necessary to lift people out of poverty, but states like Madhya Pradesh show that even when growth lags, schemes like NREGA can d...
- NREGA funds: SC to make Orissa an example
Livid at the allegation of diversion of funds sent by the Centre to states for NREGA-mandated schemes, the Supreme Court on Monday warned t...
- Supreme Court to direct centre on NREGA probe
The Supreme Court has favoured a probe into diversion of funds in government’s flagship rural employment programme, NREGA, in Orissa.
- Govt orders inquiry into NREGA scam in Gujarat
The government today ordered an inquiry into the alleged irregularities in wage payments under NREGA in Kotda village in Gujarat's Kotiyana...
- Government proposes NREGA-like urban job plan
Government has proposed to launch an urban employment guarantee scheme on the lines of NREGA and give statutory sanctions to minimum wages.
- Centre has NREGA to counter drought onslaught
Govt plans to fall back on NREGA to provide relief in affected areas.
- Govt may freeze NREGA wage rate at Rs 100 per day
In a bid to limit the fiscal burden of Congress’s ‘aam aadmi’ poll promise, Centre is likely to ensure that NREGA wage rate is frozen at Rs...
- No free lunches even under NREGA
Work executed under the NREGA and rural development generally call for a much greater degree of professionalisation, for which we must be w...
- Third party monitoring of NREGA needed: Minister
Calling for effective monitoring of the implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in 330 districts of the country w...