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Centre seeks house approval for extra net spending of Rs 58,378 crThe demands involve gross additional spending of more than ₹1.29 lakh crore in this fiscal, a significant chunk of which, ₹70,968 crore, wi...
NREGS spending drops 5% in FY23Expenditure under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in FY23 at ₹1.01 lakh crore still remained close ...
The return of migrants: NREGS work dips, signals rise in demand for industrial labourHeavy rains and states’ spending constraints also played a part in lower employment in rural works programmes in August. Government data sh...
Big Budget number! Rs 60,000 crore set aside for MGNREGA this yearAnnouncing the highest-ever allocation to MGNREGA in his 2015-16 Budget speech, Jaitley gave Rs 34,699 crore to the scheme, nearly 12 per c...
How the NDA government came to own a UPA flagship schemeBut Modi not only did not discontinue it after coming to power but also enhanced it in various ways. The rationale behind this move was to ...
Government may call for quality roads built under MGNREGSPM Modi had asked the rural development ministry to ensure that the money spent on the scheme does not go waste in “digging ditches” but cr...
Rural poor coming back to NREGS: Birender SinghThe scheme generated 49 days of average person days of employment in 2015-16 even though it was a drought year and 11 states were allowed 5...
P Chidambaram is on the right track, he must stay the courseThe toxic chatter around graft has abated, but the government can do lots to make it easier to invest in India.
- Poverty rate drops, rural wages up during six years of UPA rule
The 2009-10 survey by NSSO shows that poverty is coming down and real spending by each person in rural India rose 6.3% in five-year period ...
- Coffee growers eye people who lost jobs after ore mining ban
Karnataka coffee growers who have been complaining of a chronic shortage of farmhands may finally have an answer in the upcoming harvest se...
- Nothing wrong with the Budget: Edelweiss
Rashesh Shah, chairman, Edelweiss Capital, in a chat with ET Now talks about the Budget.
- Now, NREGA gets a taste of uniongiri
In Kerala, the scheme’s beneficiaries are exercising another inalienable right - the right to form trade unions.
- Orissa revises wages for NREGS job seekers
Orissa government on Thursday revised revised the rate for earth works under the national rural employment guarantee scheme (NREGS) in the ...
- Union Budget 2009-'10: Spending on Bharat will spur India’s growth too
To bridge rural-urban divide and ensure aam aadmi is at centre of the development process and its programmes and schemes, budgetary allocat...
- Budget may pump up Plan outlay
The Budget to be presented by FM today is likely to propose substantially higher Plan spending of Rs 40,000 crore. Decoding Budget jargon I...
- Flagships to get regulator in 100 days
Govt Schemes on Social infrastructure, education, healthcare and rural jobs to be monitored every quarter.
- India Story, Chapter 2009: No. 2 in growth race
India will be the second fastest growing economy in the world after China, Goldman Sachs, the American financial services major has said.
- UPA plans additional funds for flagship social sector spending
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is likely to substantially hike allocations for flagship programmes including National Rural E...
- JNNURM may get Rs 20k-cr boost ahead of elections
Ahead of general elections, the government may enhance fund allocations for two-flagship programmes; the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mis...
- Rural job scheme to be launched on Nov 14
The much-awaited National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is tentatively slated to be launched on November 14, Pandit Nehru’s bir...