For rural households, the MGNREGA Job Card is an important record of employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. The good news is that many details linked to the card ...

The MGNREGA guaranteed not just employment, but dignity. VB-GRAM) has ceased to be demand-driven—a change that fundamentally alters its character as a rights-based employment guarantee. Under MGNREGA, ...

In September 2006, a year after the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act had been passed in Parliament, I joined a social audit team in rural Andhra Pradesh to audit the newly opened NREGA ...

Government employees appear to have found an unlikely second calling under the rural job guarantee scheme, with 24 government employees enrolled as unskilled workers under MGNREGA and Rs 6.04 lakh ...

Punjab Congress affairs in-charge Bhupesh Baghel on Friday promised to restore MGNREGA if it comes to power in Punjab after the 2027 assembly polls. Punjab Congress affairs in-charge Bhupesh Baghel ...

The replacement of MGNREGA with the G-RAM-G framework has triggered concern among states and critics, who argue the changes go far beyond renaming, diluting decentralisation and recasting ...

The Centre has notified the VB–G RAM G Act, 2025, replacing MGNREGA from July 1, 2026 with a 125-day rural employment guarantee and a new funding structure. The law introduces tech-driven monitoring, ...

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 15 (ANI): Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge on Thursday said that the State government would challenge the scrapping of the MGNREGA scheme constitutionally and ...

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday said that Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee always delivers on her promises, and it was evident in the case of the state government’s ‘Karmasree’ ...

New Delhi: In a piece of good news, the Centre has decided to make a hike of 3-10 per cent in the wage rates for workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) ...

RAE BARELI Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused the Modi government of seeking to centralise power and weaken welfare safeguards for the poor, alleging ...

Kolkata: In another success in providing employments to people during the second wave of Covid pandemic, the Bengal government has created 18.67 crore mandays under MGNREGA scheme which is 84 per cent ...