MGNREGA: Workers call for scrapping of attendance scheme at Jantar Mantar protest 

The NREGA Sangharsh Morcha alleged that the claims of government about smooth functioning of the scheme were false and misleading  

Ahead of Budget, activists demand allocation of Rs 2.72 lakh crore for MGNREGS in 2023-24

Considered inflation, pending worker wages and high demand, say NREGA Sangharsh Mocha and People’s Action for Employment Guarantee

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 

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  

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 …

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 …

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

Underfunding, misleading claims: The story of MGNREGA in New India

Govt has made tall claims on NREGA implementation; but it is neither keen on providing dignified wages nor allocating adequate funds for the scheme

Cautionary tales

Jean Dreze argues that we should not leave the making of an equitable society to experts alone

Creation of water harvesting structures: Will the Centre achieve the target?

The Centre has announced the construction of half a million dug wells and farm ponds to tackle drought

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. …

The poorest shun MGNREGA

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

Giant snail invasion

People in Kerala village spend nights battling large snails that devour plants and nibble at walls  

Water turns the tide

A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and flood in 2006

Environment Day: Green agenda for new government

Get the focus on environment and health, Mr Prime Minister

Mr Modi, Wish us a Happy Environment Day

NREGA racket Chhattisgarh suspends officials

Drop in unemployment not necessarily good news

‘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 …

Book One Valley and A Thousand Dams, Nationalism and Development

Book>> Daniel Klingensmith, 'One Valley and a Thousand' Dams, Nationalism and Development Oxford University Press New Delhi 2007

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

Bihar in reverse gear

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

Afforestation wages in cash

Chhattisgarh violates Supreme Court order