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
RTI rap for two officers
Rs 10,000 salary cut for delay in giving information
Runup to Interim Budget 2024: The minimum NREGA budget for FY 2024-25 must be Rs 2.71 lakh crore
The government must recognise the significance of NREGA and ensure adequate budgets that allow the programme to function as intended
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