Village Panchayat, Kaluana in district Sirsa figures among the best 11 panchayats in the country selected for their better performance in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREGA) Scheme in 2009-10.

While stating this here on Wednesday, an official spokesman said UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh honoured the panchayat in a f

On a bright January morning, Jaga Ram Garasia surveys his mustard fields in Chitrawas village with satisfaction. The crop is in full bloom, thanks to a good monsoon last year.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the United Progressive Alliance government

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said workers employed under the government's flagship rural jobs scheme, Mahatma Gandhi NREGA, would get higher wages to offset inflation.

"We have decided to hike the wages as per the rise in consumer price index.

Jaipur: Five years after it came into being, hundreds of NGOs and activists would come together to recount the success and failure of MGNREGA at Udyog Maidan near Statue Circle on Wednesday.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act had come into effect on February 2, 2006.
According to Nikhil Dey of the Suchna Evum Rozgar Ka Adhikar Abhiyan,

It was launched in 2006 to ensure livelihood security for the rural poor.

Just two and half years ago, Kandhamal was India’s shame as a communal violence triggered by the killing of a Hindu seer left 38 people dead, thousands of houses and hundreds of churches burnt and vandalised and several thousand people scurrying to relief camps for safety.

The government

The government