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Why NREGA wage rates should be revised
April 11, 2025 1:56 am
Concerns regarding the NREGA wage rate include increasing divergence from the notified minimum wage rate, discrepancies in state-wise wage rates, and poor inflation indexation
Digging rainwater pit, MGNREGA workers stumble upon coins dating back to 1826, gold ornaments
July 18, 2024 8:27 am
On Wednesday, the state archeology department examined the items and said they were of archeological value
Despite growth, why Indian workers need to worry
December 26, 2023 10:15 am
It should be a matter of concern that this seemingly healthy economic momentum has, so far, not translated into a commensurate increase in more productive employment opportunities for the millions entering the labour force every year.
Centre allows ‘mixed’ payment route for NREGS till March 31 amid protests over Aadhaar-linked system
March 20, 2023 7:28 am
The NACH is a fund clearing platform set up by National Payments Corporation of India and it electronically facilitates recurring interbank transactions. While the ABPS uses the Aadhaar number for identification of beneficiaries for fund transfer, the NACH uses bank account details.
2 NREGA workers run over by train: 6 days later, families get Rs 5 lakh relief each, finally cremate bodies
September 21, 2022 7:49 am
The families of the two labourers, Avtar Singh (55) and Ram Lubhaya ( 65), were handed the cheques by Varinderpal Singh Bajwa, additional deputy commissioner (development) Jalandhar.
Hunger Watch Report II released: MNREGA work hit by state-Centre conflict, 1.4 crore families affected
July 29, 2022 3:49 am
“MNREGA functions on the basis of demand and as a result the lack of it is a major blow to workers. Health, education, all of the spheres of their liver are being affected,” said another member of the team.
Punjab yet to finish 85% of work under NREGA this financial year
January 07, 2021 10:01 am
The state has taken up 1.31 lakh works under the scheme in the past 9 months till December 31, 2020 including some spill over works of the last financial year out of which only 19,612 works (around 15 per cent of the total taken up works) could be completed till date.
NREGA didis of Kurhani
November 04, 2020 11:38 am
A collective of NREGA women activists discovers its political voice.
In first, Jharkhand gets social audit team to boost NREGA work demand
September 18, 2020 7:14 am
According to officials, this is a big shift in the work demand process—separating demand generating and implementing agencies—and is likely to change the way MGNREGA functions in the state.
Rathin Roy: ‘Need to settle NREGA the moment work is executed... pay by end of working day’
June 29, 2020 2:56 pm
In this E-Xplained held a few weeks before he quit as Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Rathin Roy, ex-member of PM’s Economic Advisory Council, discusses challenges and options in a likely recessionary year.
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