Bihar govt to use GPS phones to monitor MNREGA progress

Bihar government has decided to use high-tech GPS enabled Android phones to monitor progress of the rural jobs scheme and keep a watch on the officials involved in the implementation of the......

Bihar govt sacks 110 MNREGS officials for corruption

The Bihar government has sacked 110 officials of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme from service for corruption.Bihar Rural Development Minister Nitish Mishra on Thursday......

'The BJP Is A Huge Banyan Tree'

'Elections are fought to win.''In our party, the leadership takes the final decision, and our leaders are very clear about it.' IMAGE: Dharmendra Pradhan, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from......

PM launches employment scheme for migrant workers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched an employment scheme with an outlay of Rs 50,000 crore for migrant workers who returned to their home states during the coronavirus-induced......

Political Savvy Nirmalaji's Bold Budget

Few finance ministers announce any taxation measure that could upset the stock market.Ms Sitharaman decided to take that risk, observes A K Bhattacharya. IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman......

Sign of rising rural distress: MGNREGS demand up in poorest states

India’s post-pandemic recovery appears to be shaping up like the letter K, widening the inequality among states. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The last part of the series captures the......

India's very popular rural employment scheme faces tough times

Under the MGNREGA, employment has to be provided for a minimum 100 days and unemployment allowance if work is not made available. Labourers work on a dried lake to try and revive it under the......

Rural job guarantee scheme an eyewash?

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is neither national, nor does it guarantee anything: that, in sum, is the finding of a study conducted after the scheme, put in place by the National......