Bid to add social content to UID scheme, otherwise in limbo
With the AADHAR scheme apparently in limbo, the Centre is making a desperate effort to provide it social content.

After firefighting the controversy over poverty line cut-off, the Congress-led UPA government may find itself in trouble on the matter of NREGS wages.

The World Food Programme (WFP) will start a new Bangladesh programme in January to assist 4 million hungry, vulnerable and malnourished people at a cost of nearly $340 million.

“MGNREGS should move from relief work mode to one that blends natural resources and labour” to build productive assets

The rain-god may have been the kindest this year.

Faced with MPs complaints regarding alleged corruption in the implementation of rural job guarantee scheme NREGS, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday faulted elected MPs for their

The ministry of rural development is mulling over changes in the implementation guidelines of the country’s largest rural employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employmen

The Japanese government has given the World Food Programme (WFP) US$ 10 million or Tk 75 crore to provide food assistance to the poor communities vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change

New Delhi: Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said states should invoke the penalty clause against government officials for not doing their work under the job scheme.

NEW DELHI, 1 SEPT: In order to achieve the targeted goals of the UPA’s flagship scheme, Mahatma Gandhi NREGA, the government has decided on a series of “reforms” to make it a truly “demand-driven a