The ambitious legislation seeking to provide jobs in rural areas has received Presidential assent, paving the way for provision of at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a year to every......
A landmark bill guaranteeing at least 100 days' employment per year to every rural household was on Tuesday approved by the Lok Sabha, ensuring fulfilment of a major promise of the United......
The United Progressive Alliance government on Thursday took upa 'historic' bill in the Lok Sabha to ensure a minimum of 100 days of guaranteed wage employment for all rural households every year.......
Will the new Congress government implement the five 'guarantees' that helped it in part to wrest power from the Bharatiya Janata Party in toto or will they now add a "conditions apply" clause?......
Leaders from across the world including, the US, Canada, France, and Sri Lanka have expressed grief over the death of former prime minister Manmohan Singh and recalled his contributions to......
Will handing over the management of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) ensure the scheme works? The rural development......
The UPA2 government finds itself in a jam with its flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) being widely misused even as the National Human Rights Commission......
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the United Progressive Alliance government's flagship programme, has so far spent just 56 per cent of its Budget allocation of Rs......
A group of leading economists has said the future of India's biggest anti-poverty scheme, which has brought work to millions of impoverished villagers, is under threat and urged the government not......
In her Budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday underlined the need for collaboration between the Centre and states to take up the next-generation reforms covering land,......