'Previously, contributing only 25 per cent of material costs, states now face burdens of 40 per cent to 100 per cent of total costs, ensuring poorer states will curb project approvals, directly......
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Monday expressed serious concern over 'slow progress' and 'improper implementation' of the centrally-sponsored National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in his Lok......
Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi plans to visit Papasanipalli village in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district on November 17 to witness rural development programmes. Suu Kyi will be......
At least 22 Uttar Pradesh government officials have been suspended for their alleged bungling of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) funds. The issue came to limelight when......
The Communist Party of India has demanded the tabling of the women's reservation bill in the current session of Parliament.In a resolution adopted on the penultimate day of the ongoing 20th......
After a gap of more than three years, the central government has agreed to resume the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) works in West Bengal with immediate effect,......
The government's bill for funding the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has risen steeply, due to its decision to revise wage rates under these projects and to link these to the......
NREGS has no place in the scheme of things that Kejriwal prescribes for the nation in his book Swaraj, says Sreelatha Menon. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is the only......
Andhra Pradesh Rural Development Minister V Vasant Kumar on Tuesday said the daily wages paid to workers under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in the state will be enhanced......
The Tamil Nadu development formula makes programmes like the NREGS work through simple but top-down solutions, says Sreelatha Menon. Tamil Nadu seems to have a solution to each and every problem......