With a whopping 2,650 workers registered under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), allocation of work to a meagre upto 75 workers a day by Palayampatti Panchayat ...

The Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rojgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G), Bill 2025, replaces the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005. The bill aims to ...

The labour cost in many states including Tamil Nadu is over Rs 1,000 per day and yet, it's hard to find labourers. (Image/PTI) Follow Us With just a little over a month to go for FY25 to end, the ...

The Congress on Sunday (February 2, 2025) lashed out at the government over keeping the MGNREGS budget stagnant and said the "neglect" of this crucial safety net exposes its indifference to rural ...

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), when it came into effect in 2006, was India’s biggest , a radical welfare programme which provided guaranteed employment to the ...

NEW DELHI: The Finance Ministry is likely to approve a 12% hike in the outlay of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for five years, as demanded by the Ministry of ...

New Delhi: Rural households received an average of 43 days of employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in 2025-26, the lowest in a decade, according to ...

NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel on Monday criticised the government for not increasing the allocation under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), expressing concern ...

The committee, in its report on the 2025-26 budgetary allocation, said wages worth Rs 12,219.18 crore were pending, while Rs 11,227.09 crore remained uncleared against the material component for a ...

MGNREGS demand for FY25 peaked in May last year, when 27.18 million households sought employment, before gradually easing through the rest of the fiscal year. New Delhi: Demand for unskilled work ...

MGNREGS aims to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household in rural areas of the country, whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work, ...

Chennai: Opposition to the proposal to change the name of Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has grown louder in Tamil Nadu as political parties irrespective of the alliance ...