The rural development ministry will organise camps in villages to seek consent of the beneficiaries for seeding their bank accounts to thei...

Rural development ministry had released Rs 23,443 crore -- half of the budgetary allocation under the scheme to states in April itself to e...

The additional funds sought by the ministry in the third supplementary budget will help in meeting pending payments to the tune of Rs 3,700...

NREGS workers are paid daily in smaller denomination notes, which are in short supply even after the government put more focus to make cash...

Eight states raise serious concerns with the Centre on a “terrible cash crunch” post demonetisation leading to difficulty in payments which...

The 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...

The 11 drought prone states where NREGS had introduced the provision of 50 extra days of work saw only 3.78 lakh households working for 150...

The government will start paying wages to NREG scheme workers in 10 more states directly into their bank accounts on a daily basis from thi...

The 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...

With unemployment rate rising in rural areas, the government has asked all states to take stock of the implementation of the National Rural...

This would be the first year when there would not be any cut in the allocation in NREGS or any other social sector scheme. We will in fact ...

The government said delayed payments have been slashed by 72% and it wants to bring down the level to single digits by June.

Ground reports from across the country show NREGS is facing a plethora of problems. Primary among these is a sharp cut in central funds to ...

Jharkhand is trying to use technology to retool the delivery of services so that every citizen can access them – easily, efficiently and co...

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...

With the CAG finding irregularities in implementation of its flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has indicted the Bihar rural development department for alleged glaring irregularities in impleme...