MGNREGA: Workers across 13 states protest to demand unpaid wages

Around Rs 2,800 crore are pending in wages from the Centre under MGNREGA for this financial year and around Rs 1,984 crore are pending from the …

‘Rethink economics of poverty’

Want poor families in north India to immunise their children? Offer the parents a small bag of lentils as an incentive and vaccination rates make …

Will cash transfer check migration?

India needs to be cautious as experience shows it can backfire

SELF (UN) EMPLOYMENT

Pick and choose

Let states decide

Search on for a new model

Search on for a new model

RTI rap for two officers

Rs 10,000 salary cut for delay in giving information  

Women and a nervous regime

Emboldened by SHG movement, reservation in panchayats, women emerge as key constituency

NREGA’s technological sabbatical

Job cards of many to expire in 2011 and renewal would take time

How women seized NREGA

May Day: Strengthen NREGA to compensate for rural losses due to COVID-19

India is already paying a heavy price due to the government’s unpreparedness to deal with the health crisis. The Centre should pull up its …

Bihar in reverse gear

State plans to bring down its minimum wage rate to that under MGNREGA

Reading between poverty lines

Is the latest poverty estimate a true indicator of rural poor in India?  

Lost and found

Karnataka villages are reviving underground springs that were once their lifeline in summers

Centre has withheld Rs 7,500 crore in MGNREGA funds to West Bengal for a year, claims report

MGNREGA workers in Bengal not paid wages of Rs 2744 crore for a year, report by Libtech India found  

Blood, sweat and tears

For RTI activists of Bihar the cost of exposing corruption is life

Lean, mean scheme

Budget to start process of reforming Central rural schemes, 45 years after first demand

Bengal MGNREGA workers lost up to Rs 6,046 crore in wages during April-December 2022

 A study estimates that workers have lost income by 83%, compelling them to borrow money for survival 

Is Union Budget 2021-22 MGNREGA allocation enough to alleviate rural distress

Number of person days to reduce to 2.7-2.8 billion person days for next year, says expert

The poorest shun MGNREGA

Participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in the scheme has halved in five years

How MGNREGA blew Rs 10,853 crore

The “little known” success story of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has unfolded as a disaster. …

Agents of change

Gramdoots, or village volunteers, mobilise people to get government machinery moving

Afforestation wages in cash

Chhattisgarh violates Supreme Court order