Govt hikes wages under rural employment guarantee schemeThe average hike of Rs 20 in the wages of rural workers is part of the Rs 1.7 lakh crore fiscal package announced recently to mitigate the ...
NREGS wages may rise after panel proposes new calculationSeveral other recommendations of Mahendra Dev Committee have been rejected by the new committee such as linking NREGS minimum wage to that ...
Rural Ministry seeks Rs 6,000 crore more for NREGSThe additional funds sought by the ministry in the third supplementary budget will help in meeting pending payments to the tune of Rs 3,700...
Enough funds for NREGS, says Rural Development Secretary Amarjeet SinhaThe ministry has also turned down the Mahendra Dev Committee’s recommendation for revision of wage calculation method of NREGS, which would...
Budget 2016: Government allocates Rs 2,000 crore more for NREGSThe government has allocated Rs 2,000 crore to the rural development ministry apart from the budget allocation of Rs 38,500 crore for the N...
How NREGS' very essence has become its biggest challengeGround reports from across the country show NREGS is facing a plethora of problems. Primary among these is a sharp cut in central funds to ...
- Drought-hit villagers pour into Mumbai; shun low NREGS wages
Truckloads of villagers are migrating from the hinterland to cities like Mumbai, Pune and Kolhapur in desperate search for livelihood.
- NREGS: Work only a means of self-selection , not of earning
The debate on whether the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) should pay the minimum wage or not misses one...
- Keep off the NREGS
Why it’s not a good idea to suspend the rural employment programme.
- PM rejects NAC's reco on minimum pay
The PM, in his Dec 31 letter to the UPA chairperson, clarified that the wage rate fixed by the central govt would be indexed to inflation b...
- NREG, PDS & nutritional deprivation
The effects of NREG wages on nutrient intake in many cases are larger than those of non-NREG income For some nutrients, PDS has larger effe...
- Daily wages paid to NREGS workers to be hiked from May Day
Equal wages would be paid to both male and female workers without any discrimination, Vasant Kumar added.
- 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 ...
- NREGS may be tough on state farmers
The Union Budget has earmarked Rs 39,100 crore for the UPA government’s flagship programme for the current fiscal, which marks a 144% incre...
- IITs, IIMs to assist government in rural employment scheme
Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) will help the government in implementing its flagship r...
- AP's software developed for NRDGS bags international award
The software developed for the implementation of National Rural Development Guarantee Scheme (NRDGS) in Andhra Pradesh has bagged the Inter...
- CAG indicts Bihar for irregularities in NREGS
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has indicted the Bihar rural development department for alleged glaring irregularities in impleme...