State has been directed to set up a separate development authority

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has rejected Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s suggestion on modifying MGNREGA’s guidelines, saying it has not impacted the availability of workers for th

Fixing of minimum wages in the States and under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is set to become a poll issue, at least in Uttar Pradesh.

In the second term of the United Progressive Alliance, the Food Ministry has been totally consumed with the drafting of the Bill which has been routed through the National Advisory Council, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council and the Empowered Group of Ministers on Food.

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh is learnt to have reluctantly agreed to file an appeal against a Karnataka High Court verdict in September that NREGS wages cannot be fixed lower than what

Srinagar: Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Jairam Ramesh here today launched a Centrally-sponsored programme “Himayat” (support) aimed at providing employment opportunities a

Bhopal : With the Centre giving its in- principle consent for providing funds under Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) for smaller villages, the dream of the people of 2,494 villages in Mad

With less than a week left, the UPA government seems to be split on the issue of appealing against the Karnataka High Court’s order stating that wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employ

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s flexing of the muscle appears to be yielding dividend, as the state after securing an economic package of `8,750 crores from the Centre is soon likely t

Bhopal : Proposals to connect villages of Madhya Pradesh with population of 800 to 999 with roads under Pradhanmantri Gram Sadak Yojna will be sent shortly to the Government of India.