The scheme is a form of empowerment that cash transfers are not. Hence, these can be cut off at any time at government whim.

Centre withheld MGNREGS funds to West Bengal due to irregularities, sparking conflict between State and Centre over ...

Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is scheduled to get a briefing from the committee on its recommendations in January.

Job cards cannot be deleted due to non-linkage with Aadhaar, said Union Minister of State for Rural Development Kamlesh ...

Parliamentary standing committee report also highlighted the outdated base year and base rates used for fixing wages under ...

Overall, there has been a decrease in demand for employment under MGNREGS by 23.68 % between 2020-21 and 2023-24 in 34 states ...

A brainstorming session led by Shivraj Singh Chouhan on the MGNREGS aimed at improving the scheme's impact on rural ...

A Parliamentary Panel has recommended that the Rural Development Ministry's Aadhaar Based Payment Bridge System (ABPS) for ...

A parliamentary panel has advised against mandating the Aadhaar-based payment system for MGNREGS, citing potential worker ...

The ivory tower is all too real. It explains a key deficiency in well-intentioned but useless analysis. It’s too distant from ...

A parliamentary panel has criticized the low wages under MGNREGS, questioning the lack of inflation indexing and urging the ...

The panel has also urged the Union rural development ministry for devising a mechanism for raising wages under the scheme ...