The 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...

PM used one budget after another to eventually Modi-fy a scheme that he critiqued before he came to power.

Assets created under NREGA include works related to natural resource management such as water conservation, land development and irrigation.

Factory jobs have declined by more than 10% and mechanisation has increased by 22.3% as a result of implementing this rural job programme.

There has been sudden surge in the demand for work under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in last one month or so.

A Parliamentary committee has recommended a legislation to guarantee employment to urban poor, especially those from SCs and STs, in the sa...

The Battle for Employment Guarantee, edited by IIT Delhi professor Reetika Khera, takes a look at the employment guarantee scheme's journey...

State governments will have to abide by stricter rules to receive money from the centre for the rural employment scheme in the next financi...

The unspent funds in government's various flagship schemes in the current year has led the government to keep budget allocations for these ...

The Supreme Court has favoured a probe into diversion of funds in government’s flagship rural employment programme, NREGA, in Orissa.

The Supreme Court on Friday expressed need for the establishment of a nodal watchdog agency to oversee the implementation of NREGA.

The UPA govt is unable to implement well NREGA and NRHM.

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...

CAG praises state for building a transparent and accountable system to implement the rural job scheme

The UPA government’s flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is set to get even bigger with the rural development ministry...

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...

The Government has effected a whopping 87.5 per cent increase in the Plan allocation for its flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee A...