The state government has started pushing the Centre to increase minimum wages for labourers working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA).

The Rajasthan government has been pursuing the issue of increasing wages of MNREGA labourers to the existing minimum wage rate of labour in organised sector in the state.
Chief minister Ashok Gehlot wrote a letter to prim

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New Delhi: With an eye on projected 2.5% annual growth in the job sector, the government is in the process of giving final touches to a national policy to accelerate employment growth.

The draft of the proposed National Employment Policy is likely to be placed before the Cabinet soon for its approval. Sources in the labour and employment ministry said a draft note has already been prepared.

The Centre and states may vie to take credit for the MNREGS, but when it comes to footing the bill for the job guarantee scheme, the story is different.

Asking the Centre to notify new, revised wage rates

New Delhi: The Centre and states may vie to take credit for the MNREGS, but when it comes to footing the Bill for the job guarantee scheme, the story is different.

Asking the Centre to notify new, revised wage rates

Ahead of the crucial National Advisory Council (NAC) meeting on October 23, public interest groups have sought the intervention of its chairperson Sonia Gandhi to make the proposed National Food Security Act “comprehensive and meaningful”. The NAC has been debating various scenarios to cover the maximum number of beneficiaries under the proposed law.