About 8.55 crore households demanded MGNREGA work in 2020-21, followed by 8.05 crore in 2021-22, compared to a total of 6.16 core households asking for work in the pre-pandemic year 2019-20.

₹3,358 crore in MGNREGA wages not paid Government reply in Rajya Sabha comes amid cut in budget allocation to the rural jobs scheme by 25%. Updated - February 03, 2022 11:19 am IST - NEW DELHI.

NEW DELHI: Pitching for immediate reforms in the Centre\'s flagship rural job scheme MGNREGA, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said the complaints of corruption and irregularities regardin ...

MGNREGA was envisaged as a provider of rural employment to casual workers at government-mandated minimum wages set above market wages. This was the case at its 2006 launch.

Bhopal, June 16 -- Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a nationwide campaign is being carried out to realize the vision of empowerment for the poor, women, farmers, and youth.

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MGNREGA played a significant role in helping rural people cope with the pandemic stress, generating for them more total workdays in comparison with the pre-pandemic time, a senior official has said.

Yet, the labour participation in MGNREGA has not grown, proven by the fact that only 2.3 billion person-days of labour were generated both in 2015-'16 and 2012-'13, despite a 27% wage increase.

In fact, rural wages remained stagnant between 2000-01 and 2005-06 and it was after implementation of MGNREGA (from 2005-06 to 2010-11) that the growth rate of agricultural wages increased to 2.7% ...

Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, on Sunday, instructed the officials of Rural Development department to train MGNREGA workers as per the target set under Project Unnati. Negligence in ...