Opposition turns up the heat on Nitish government over MGNREGA funds scam

Non-profit report says nearly Rs 6,000 crore meant to be paid to wage labourers siphoned off

Centre launches MGNREGA 2.0

30 new types of work added to the rural job guarantee scheme list to restore demand for work under UPA's flagship welfare programme

Concrete truth of water structures built under MNREGA

The share of water structures constructed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has gone down from 20 per cent in 2014-…

Democracy under surveillance

West Bengal bureaucrats to monitor panchayat institutions, implement their decisions  

MGNREGA inefficiently managed, finds CAG

Government spent Rs. 1,26,961 crore but hardly 30 per cent works are completed

MGNREGA wages not paid for seven months in Amaravati

Social activists inform Bombay High Court

Flour surplus: Ponds transformed farming in villages of Jharkhand's Pakur

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act helped flood-hit Jhenagaria build back stronger

Union Budget 2020-21: Total rural budgetary allocation, including MGNREGA slashed

This comes even as rural India is suffering its worst unemployment crisis in 45 years

Drought, but why: Several districts in peril every year

Despite 40 years of efforts and huge resource allocation, drought continues to hit the same districts over and again

MGNREGA activist gangraped in Bihar

Victim dies on way to hospital; she had angered influential landlords of her village

Odisha block residents to get MNREGA employment for 200 days

500 crore package launched to ensure timely, uninterrupted wage payment under MGNREGA and check migration of labour

Consult us on linking agriculture with MGNREGA: Farmers write to PM

Rashtriya Kisan Mahashangha demands farmers's involvement in deliberations over use of MGNREGA in farm sector

Activist lands in jail for protesting lack of health facilities in tribal district five years ago

People picket police stations; fellow activist claims case is baseless

India heads to an unprecedented rural economic crisis

Fifth consecutive drought for 1/3 districts, dipping rural wages, El Nino threatening monsoon have squeezed livelihood options for over 500 …

87% of MGNREGA's annual fund already spent

More than a third of India is facing drought-like situation and a fund crunch in MGNREGA for the remaining financial year can perpetuate the …

Jharkhand proposes MGNREGA worker unions

Work demand under the rural employment programme is decreasing in the state

NGO moves Supreme Court; seeks CBI probe into MGNREGA funds scam in Bihar

Report by Centre for Environment and Food Security says nearly Rs 6,000 crore meant to be paid to wage labourers siphoned off

MNREGA wage hike less than minimum wage in 33 states

Nagaland is the only state where the wage rate is equal to or more than their minimum wage

Renew political commitment for MGNREGA, MPs write to PM

Severe funds crunch and lack of payments show that the Union government has failed to protect the legal entitlement of millions of rural workers, …

CAG indicts Bihar for irregularities in rural job scheme implementation

Only 35 per cent beneficiaries got jobs; half of civil work undertaken left incomplete

Other side of the fence

Conservation hits close home for forest officer

No sops for rural Indian

No extra funds for MGNREGA, sanitation; allocations reduced for rural roads and housing programme

Economic Survey recommends using MGNREGA to revive water bodies

Revival will lead to an increase in the net irrigation potential

How 3-pond systems helped villagers double yield, save lakhs

A system of three ponds to recycle grey water from the village has helped farmers and panchayats save lakhs of rupees

COVID-19: What about India’s migrant workers?

Rajasthan-based non-profit presented a charter of demands to union government demanding safety net for migrant workers