Announcing 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...

But 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 ...

PM 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...

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 toxic chatter around graft has abated, but the government can do lots to make it easier to invest in India.

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 ...

Karnataka coffee growers who have been complaining of a chronic shortage of farmhands may finally have an answer in the upcoming harvest se...

Rashesh Shah, chairman, Edelweiss Capital, in a chat with ET Now talks about the Budget.

In Kerala, the scheme’s beneficiaries are exercising another inalienable right - the right to form trade unions.

Orissa government on Thursday revised revised the rate for earth works under the national rural employment guarantee scheme (NREGS) in the ...

To bridge rural-urban divide and ensure aam aadmi is at centre of the development process and its programmes and schemes, budgetary allocat...

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...

Govt Schemes on Social infrastructure, education, healthcare and rural jobs to be monitored every quarter.

India will be the second fastest growing economy in the world after China, Goldman Sachs, the American financial services major has said.

United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is likely to substantially hike allocations for flagship programmes including National Rural E...

Ahead of general elections, the government may enhance fund allocations for two-flagship programmes; the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mis...

The much-awaited National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is tentatively slated to be launched on November 14, Pandit Nehru’s bir...