MGNREGA
- India
Rural Development Ministry allays fear over budget cut in MGNREGA
New Delhi: The Ministry of Rural Development said on Friday that the concern that lower allocation for the MGNREGA scheme for 2023-24 may affect the rural employment scheme is far from the…
- Hyderabad
Telangana: BRS to protest against Centre over MGNREGA delay for farmers
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president and IT minister KT Rama Rao urged party members to hold protests on Friday in all district headquarters throughout the state in response to the…
- India
MGNREGA fraud worth Rs 3 crore unearthed in Gujarat, 4 booked
Amreli: Four officers working for the MGNREGA department have been booked for siphoning Rs 3.30 crore from the government’s treasury in Gujarat’s Amreli district. From 2015-2019, the accused created duplicate job cards,…
- India
WB: HC seeks affidavit from govt on PIL alleging MGNREGA irregularities
Kolkata: A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Monday sought an affidavit from the West Bengal government in connection with a PIL filed by the leader of opposition in West Bengal…
- India
Will I have to touch feet of PM Modi to get MGNREGA funds: Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday questioned whether she will have to touch the feet of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to get the dues of the state government…
- India
Cobweb delaying MGNREGA payment needs to be surgically cleared
New Delhi: A Parliamentary standing committee in its report on MGNREG Act observed that the bureaucratic cobweb surrounding the factors for delay in payment need to be surgically cleared off. The Parliamentary…
- Telangana
Telangana: MGNREGS records a 7.6% drop in employment for 2021-22
Hyderabad: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) recorded a steep decrease in employment in Telangana in the year 2021-22. Employment in the state took a dip of 7.6% compared…
- Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh: Nearly half of MGNREGS workers remain unemployed
Hyderabad: 44.8 lakh people eligible under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) are currently unemployed in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The team at LibTech India, an organisation that…
