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NREGS daily minimum wage unlikely to see sharp increaseThe government is unlikely to significantly increase the NREGS daily floor wage beyond the usual annual hike, despite panel recommendations...
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 ...
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 ...
Rural ministry plans to seek Rs 17,000 crore more for NREGSSo far in this financial year, 116 crore person days of work has been generated under the scheme with 84% timely payments made to the worke...
8 states declared drought affected, Centre allows them to offer 50 days of extra work under NREGSKerala, Rajasthan, MP, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, UP, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu would be eligible to provide 150 days of manual work per h...
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...
Ministry seeks Rs 48,000 crore for NREG Scheme next yearThe government has so far allocated Rs 43,500 crore in the current financial year, one of the highest allocations made for the rural develo...
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...
NREGS workers in 10 more states to get daily wages directly in bank accountsThe government will start paying wages to NREG scheme workers in 10 more states directly into their bank accounts on a daily basis from thi...
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...
Narendra Modi government sets ambitious asset creation targets for MGNREGSThe government said delayed payments have been slashed by 72% and it wants to bring down the level to single digits by June.
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 ...
- Small savings grace for India Post
Some 31.2 million postal savings accounts were opened in 2008-09 to facilitate wage disbursal under the National Rural Employment Guarantee...
- 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...
- 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...
- Now, rural job money to go via state govts
The Centre is planning to route funds intended for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) through state governments instead...
- 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...
- Sonia terms debt waiver package a historic step
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson and the Congress party chief, Sonia Gandhi on Sunday termed the UPA Government's debt wai...
- CAG finds funds leak in UPA flagship NREGS
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the popular poverty alleviation programme of the UPA government, is under the scanner.