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Increasing work on individual land under MGNREGA a boon to rural income?

In total, around 6.41 million works under individual land has been undertaken in 2021-22 financial year, of which Bihar leads the pack.

Are revival signs of rural economy for real or is it too early to call?

Many non-official parameters do indicate a rebound, but high inflation seems to hitting hard, eroding all gains

Legal backing a must to make urban employment schemes effective: Activists

Other features of an ideal scheme include adequate funding to boost Urban Local Bodies, minimum wages for workers, and exclusion of contractors from projects, among other things

71% MGNREGA wages not paid on time, 14% delayed beyond 30 days, study shows

The study done on 1.8 mn transactions between April and September, by LibTech India and the People's Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG)

Workers seek timely payments, more workdays under rural jobs scheme

The demand for work under MGNREGS was the highest ever in 2020 after migrants returned to villages following the national lockdown

MGNREGA sees negligible increase in minimum wages in the time of Covid-19

The 4% rise in average all-India minimum wages is almost the same as CPI inflation rate between 2015-16 and 2019-20, meaning that in real terms, the increase has been insignificant

Uttarakhand increases number of working days from 100 to 150 under MGNREGA

The move aims to encourage employment opportunities

Delayed payments to rejection: MGNREGS workers spend money to collect wages

Nearly 13% of surveyed workers reported rejected payments and most were unaware of the reason for rejection

Person-days of work under MGNREGA amid Covid-19 crisis: A reality check

There are questions as to whether the support provided so far is adequate and if the government further needs to augment its budgetary allocation

Railways planning to scale up MGNREGA employment for migrant workers

The Railways has asked Zones to prepare a list of labourers against the kind of work they can be involved in

MNREGA jobs are short-term, only lasting solution is projects: L&T chief

In a Q&A, S N Subrahmanyan, MD and CEO of the engineering group says he expects govt and public sector capex to be lower by Rs 3-4 trillion this year

Demand v reality: A sorry state of affairs under MGNREGA in a Covid-19 year

Instead of the promised 100 days of work, average work provided stood just shy of one-fifth of it in this financial year till June 9

MGNREGA stares at a tough challenge ahead as labourers return to villages

Significantly expanding the budget for the rural employment guarantee scheme is vital, but so is exploring other forms of job creation

Centre allows industry, road work and MGNREGA to start in rural India

Experts say unless the implementation is monitored properly at the ground level, much of the easing out could just remain on paper

Virulent times for the faceless millions, now on the road to uncertainty

Would we in the upper class place ourselves in the hands of the government in times such as these? And if not, why do we expect that the poor would? The Indian state is weak and lacks capacity

Govt releases Rs 4,431 cr to clear pending due wages under MGNREGA

They said all the funds will be transferred directly into the beneficiaries' bank accounts

Relief package for coronavirus lockdown may not reach all poor: Experts

Experts said most of the announcements pertain to beneficiaries of existing schemes

Govt awaits Labour ministry's verdict on modifying consumer price indices

On a supplementary question on when outstanding dues to Andhra Pradesh will be released, Tomar gave an assurance that no pendency of dues relating to Andhra Pradesh would remain with his ministry.

19 states freeze Rs 3,066-cr MNREGS wage payments to over 92 mn workers

The central government has not approved most payments for 20 days in March-April 2017, and 80% wage payments in May 2017 were not processed