A three-member probe team constitutedby the Latehar district administration in Jharkhand visited worksites of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Manika block on Friday af...

When the job scheme was launched in 2006, the wage was linked to the minimum wage in every state. But since 2008, the job scheme wage has been revised in the light of the CPIAL for the state concerned...

Regular incidents of elephant attacks in some areas of Jalpaiguri district that cause loss to life and property have made the district administration come up with a plan that can help address the prob...

The Odisha government plans to generate 20 crore man-days under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) considering the livelihood needs of over 5.22 lakh migrant worker...

The much hyped laser fountain at Birsa Munda Park at Baramuri, which was installed at a cost of Rs 3.75 crore six months ago, is yet to become operational in the absence of power connection. This apar...

The Naveen Patnaik government on Thursday extended the Covid-19 lockdown in Odisha till April 30 and suggested that the Centre too continue the nationwide lockdown till the same date.The ongoing natio...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday allocated an additional Rs 40,000 crore for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the UPA-era rural job act the government has of...

The murgi shed yojana under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or MGNREGS in Palamau’s Paton block has revealed glaring anomalies.None of the seven people belonging to ext...

Residents of three villages in Hooghly’s Goghat have hatched a plan to help 16 jobless migrant workers who are back home from Gujarat and Maharashtra. To help the 16 migrants put their lives back on...

Many analysts have criticized this year’s Union budget for lacking direction. One pattern reflecting the lack of direction is the nature of expenditures budgeted for 2020-21. The spending is spread ...