A 50-year-old labourer, Subal Mahato, was allegedly beaten to death by his employer for demanding revised wages in accordance with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), in Bokaro on Saturday night.

According to NREGA Commissioner Ajay Kumar Singh, Mahato, a resident of Bathua village under Chas block in Bokaro district, was one of the nine workers hired to dig a

Even though the origins of NREGS could be traced to relief works, it has the potential to unleash a proactive dynamics that could help address the causation of poverty
You see those hills?" Jamshed Kanga, an illustrious IAS officer, then divisional commissioner, Pune, asked the noted development economist John Lewis who was visiting him in 1972, pointing to the barren Sahyadri range behind his of

The Rural Development Ministry has allowed the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex monitoring agency of the NREGS, to lapse on the completion of its tenure in September last year.

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A funding crisis has hit the government

Five years and Rs 75,000 crore later, the Centre has asked states to start a physical trail of expenses incurred under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).

The move comes after the government found out that less than 5 per cent of the total 68.6 lakh works taken up to provide jobs to rural unemployed has been completed to date in the current fiscal.

Even cumulatively, sinc

Opening Balance Of . 10,000 Cr May Lead To Marginal Hike In Employment Scheme

The late Rajiv Gandhi famously, or infamously, once claimed that only 15 per cent of the funds allocated to welfare programmes ever reached the intended beneficiaries. The rest leaked enroute, entering the pockets of an assortment of intermediaries.

Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday said MGNREGA workers in the state would get Rs 179 minimum daily wage from January 1, 2011 as the Centre revised the wage rate.

The chief minister welcomed the revision of minimum daily wage for MGNREGA workers and thanked UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for this generous decision.

Working on a job site under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Sakuna Bai is eagerly awaiting her next work payment to reach her State Bank of India account.