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

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

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

Vikramarka emphasised the importance of reforming the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), ...

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

More than 35 lakh MGNREGS job cards were deleted in the current fiscal while over 38 lakh were issued, the government informed the Rajya Sabha on Friday. Job cards cannot be deleted due to non-linkage ...

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

Hyderabad: The Congress govt is currently focused on counting agricultural labourers in the state, using job cards from the ...

During the three-hour meeting at Krishi Bhawan, issues related to implementation of the MGNREGS, including recent ...

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

Tirupati: Chittoor district collector Sumit Kumar expressed displeasure over the failure of MPDOs to conduct field-level ...

Rural Development Ministry's Aadhaar Based Payment Bridge System (ABPS) for making payments under MGNREGS should not be made compulsory, a Parliamentary Panel has recommended in a report tabled in Lok ...