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Centre to define minimum work for MGNREGA to maintain standardSources indicated that the step has been taken after a growing realisation within the government that the MGNREGA bill has been mounting an...
Odisha to support MGNREGS with additional 200 work daysThe MGNREGA ensures legal rights of wage employment to the adults (of rural households) willing to do unskilled manual labour for 100 days ...
View: Why an urban job guarantee scheme is a bad ideaSince a guaranteed urban wage can be double the MGNREGA rate, any given budget outlay can create up to twice as many jobs in rural as in ur...
MGNREGA payments lower than minimum agricultural wages in some states: ReportLakhs of migrant workers have made arduous journeys back home on foot, bicycles, and crowded trucks, while the more luckier ones have been ...
Bid to reduce gap between MGNREGA, state wagesA new committee comprising state secretaries has been formed to examine the recommendations made by the Mahendra Dev Committee last year on...
Government to rework baseline for paying MNREGA wagesThe daily wage under the MNREGA has risen by just Re 1 in Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, by Rs 2 in Odisha and by ...
MGNREGA workers of Jharkhand block return Rs 5 wage hike to PM Narendra ModiThe minimum wage under centrally-sponsored MGNREGA in Jharkhand is Rs 162 and after the hike it stands at Rs 167.
New MGNREGA wages leave states in a quandaryThe revised MGNREGA wages have left various state governments in a quandary as they apprehend the new rates would not be able to attract la...
Bihar govt to link schemes with Aadhaar to avail benefitsBihar government today announced in the state legislative Assembly that government's schemes will be linked with Aadhaar card in order to a...
Panel says MGNREGA wages shouldn't be less than minimum wage in statesCurrently, wages under MNREGA are linked to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the annual revision is based on the CPI-AL (agriculture labo...
Rural development ministry to come out with revised index for determining wages under NREGARural development ministry will soon come out with a new base and revised index for determining wages under its flagship rural job guarante...
Revise pay under Minimum Wages Act, MNREGA every 5 years: Jairam RameshJairam Ramesh-led ministry has proposed that wages under the two Acts are reviewed every five years through a consensus between Centre and ...
Government working on new index to fix rural wagesThe government is working on a new index based on the consumption pattern of rural landless labour to fix wages under MGNREGA.
House panel seeks parity between NREGA, minimum state wagesNREGA wage is below the minimum wage rates in eight states, five of them are ruled by Congress or its ally.
Government focussing on growth at cost of people: Aruna RoyAruna Roy today hit out at government saying it was focussing on economic reforms and growth at the cost of poor people.
- Supreme Court upholds verdict matching NREGA pay with state wages
The Supreme Court has refused to stay a recent Karnataka High Court verdict that has said the central government is liable to pay higher wa...
- States to bear cost of aligning NREGA wages with minimum pay: Montek
The Planning Commission has said that states will have to bear the additional burden if the minimum wages notified by them are higher than ...