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  

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

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 …

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

Caste discrimination at work place, says ILO report

Will cash transfer check migration?

India needs to be cautious as experience shows it can backfire

SELF (UN) EMPLOYMENT

Job growth statistics conceal agrarian crisis

Pick and choose

RTI rap for two officers

Rs 10,000 salary cut for delay in giving information  

Search on for a new model

Search on for a new model

Let states decide

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 …

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

Bihar in reverse gear

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

Economy created by NREGA threatens a way of life

How NREGA helped Panihari village