The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act provides for the biggest welfare spending scheme by the Government of India. A pre-announced wage rate is paid under the scheme for labour pe...
They said workers would not be able to maintain minimum living standards with the paltry hike under the NREGA.
Nikhil Dey, who works with the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan in Rajasthan, said the min...
The Centre has linked approval for the states’ rural job scheme budgets to their performance on certain transparency measures, hanging a cloud over funds release under the programme from April 1...
Employment generation is not the objective of the culture ministry, minister G. Kishan Reddy told Parliament on Thursday, angering the Opposition.
BJP MP Harnath Singh Yadav had wanted to know &ldquo...
Meghutola, a village in Panchanandapur of Kaliachak-II block of Malda, has drawn the attention of the administration in this backward north Bengal district as residents here have managed t...
Jharkhand, which is lagging behind in terms of basic state-run-healthcare infrastructure, has taken a pioneering decision to roll out village medicine shops in each gram panchayat.
The state health d...
An RSP-backed trade union has urged the Narendra Modi government to bring more people under the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation by amending existing rules — a demand which, if accep...