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Govt rejects Oppn charge on NREGA allocation cutOn Tuesday, the government dismissed the Opposition's accusation of a reduction in the budget allocation for the Mahatma Gandhi National Ru...
Allocations for PM Awas hiked, NREGA slashed 32%The allocation under the government's flagship rural jobs scheme, under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, has bee...
Budget allocation for MGNREGA scheme sees a sharp decline in Union Budget 2023Mgnrega is a demand driven scheme and the government is committed to provide funds as the utilization progresses. “The government has ratio...
NREGS fund rationalisation underway to check misuseThe budget shows a 13% drop in fund allocation to the flagship employment guarantee programme in 2020-21 at Rs 61,500 crore vis-à-vis the r...
Budget 2019: How Modi fine-tuned MGNREGA and made it betterPM used one budget after another to eventually Modi-fy a scheme that he critiqued before he came to power.
87 lakh job cards removed from MNREGA listAssets created under NREGA include works related to natural resource management such as water conservation, land development and irrigation.
Is MGNREGA destroying factory jobs? Disquieting data shows it discourages skill developmentFactory jobs have declined by more than 10% and mechanisation has increased by 22.3% as a result of implementing this rural job programme.
Demonetisation pushes demand for work under NREGAThere has been sudden surge in the demand for work under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in last one month or so.
Parliamentary panel wants NREGA like job scheme for urban poorA Parliamentary committee has recommended a legislation to guarantee employment to urban poor, especially those from SCs and STs, in the sa...
- Labour Freedom Won, Battle On Against Wage Delays:Reetika Khera
The Battle for Employment Guarantee, edited by IIT Delhi professor Reetika Khera, takes a look at the employment guarantee scheme's journey...
- Stricter norms to decide centre's NREGA allocation to states
State governments will have to abide by stricter rules to receive money from the centre for the rural employment scheme in the next financi...
- NREGA freeze frees funds for health, education
The unspent funds in government's various flagship schemes in the current year has led the government to keep budget allocations for these ...
- 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.
- Nodal watchdog needed for NREGA to help poor: SC
The Supreme Court on Friday expressed need for the establishment of a nodal watchdog agency to oversee the implementation of NREGA.
- NREGA without social audit not good news for govt
The UPA govt is unable to implement well NREGA and NRHM.
- NREGA brings IT power to AP farmers
Given the amount of commitment (almost Rs 40,000 crore allocated towards NREGA this year) for this programme, an IT-led execution at the gr...
- Tech IT: Andhra finds tools to plug NREGA loopholes
CAG praises state for building a transparent and accountable system to implement the rural job scheme
- Panchayats to monitor NREGA functioning
The UPA government’s flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is set to get even bigger with the rural development ministry...
- Plan outlay may swell by Rs 1,00,000 cr in Budget
This is likely to take total Plan expenditure to Rs 3.85 lakh crore against Rs 2.85 lakh crore in the interim Budget, tabled in February, s...
- NREGA Plan allocation hiked by a whopping 87.5% for FY'09
The Government has effected a whopping 87.5 per cent increase in the Plan allocation for its flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee A...