Tag: NREGA

Authorities’ shrewd caveat? NREGA payment ‘subject to funds availability’: Barmer women protest

India is among very few developing countries to have a rural employment guarantee scheme. Apart from providing employment during the lean farm work season, this scheme can make a...

‘Grossly inadequate’: NREGA allocation 0.29% of GDP, World Bank recommended 1.6%

A civil society tracker, seeking to periodically analyse the...

Official ‘negligence’ behind rural jobs scheme worker Lakhan’s suicide in Jharkhand

The Jharkhand NREGA Watch, in a Fact Finding Report...

The SC is Naive Assuming that the Govt Protects Rural Workers: NREGA PIL

Two days ago, on May 19, the long awaited...

Rural Distress: 9 Crore Applied For MGNREGS Work Last Year

Shrinking farm incomes, frozen wages and lack of jobs...

Protest for Work : NREGA

Many thousands of workers, beneficiaries of India’s first ever...

NREGA Claims in Jaitley’s Budget False, Mere 1 % Increase in Allocations

The real increase in budgetary allocations for MNREGA in...

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