Partap Singh Bajwa, leader of the Opposition in Punjab Assembly, has raised concerns. He stated that a proposed Indo-US trade agreement cou...

Senior BJP leaders met virtually to discuss the proposed Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill. The meeting...

The Punjab Congress will initiate a statewide mass movement starting January 8 from Gurdaspur. This action aims to protect the MGNREGA sche...

The government has assured that states will not be allowed to misappropriate or rebrand the MGNREGA. Addressing the Lok Sabha, Union Minist...

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee announced that 24.5 lakh MGNREGA workers will be paid their due wages by the state government from March 1 i...

Farmers in India, as in other parts of the world, are politically very powerful. Unions representing farmers in northern India have been em...

MGNREGA is aimed at enhancing livelihood security of households in rural areas of the country by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed ...

Noting that urban poverty in Punjab was double the rural poverty, he said the employment guarantee scheme will also cover unskilled labour.

Census data shows that individuals migrating for work rose from 30 million in 2001 to 41 million in 2011. This was the very period when Ind...

To tackle acute shortage of labour, government procurement agencies in the cereal bowl states of Haryana and Punjab have employed local wor...

Proportion of households participating in MGNREGA plumetted from 32.5% in 2012/13 to 11.80% in 2014/15, a reduction of about 64%.

The revised MGNREGA wages have left various state governments in a quandary as they apprehend the new rates would not be able to attract la...

For making Ludhiana greener, Punjab government would be planting one lakh trees along all roads falling on zila parishad land in Ludhiana d...

Quoting a CAG report in reference of the MGNREGA, the minister highlighted that the scheme has brought a major improvement in socio-economi...

Union Minister Manish Tewari today accused the "cash starved" SAD-BJP government in Punjab of diverting MGNREGA funds for "other purposes".

At present out of Rs.3400 allocated for individual toilets, Centre gives Rs. 2100, State’s share is Rs.1000 and Rs. 300 comes from the bene...

The Centre is likely to ask states to devote 2% of the funds allocated to them under its flagship scheme of NREGA for providing easy bankin...