Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday asked the state government to spell out a plan to help those affected by the lockdown to curb spread of novel coronavirus.In a statement, Gogoi sai...

The relief package the government announced on Thursday to help the poor affected by the Covid-19 lockdown includes the yearly revision of wages notified earlier this week under the rural job scheme M...

BJP parliamentarian Varun Gandhi, who stands virtually sidelined under the current dispensation, has come up with a book on rural India at a time his party is battling farm distress in the ongoing rou...

The Jharkhand rural development department has set a target of giving 10 lakh jobs to migrant workers through the pani roko, paudha ropo (conserve water, plant trees) campaign.Integrating the various ...

The rural job guarantee scheme has run out of funds for this financial year, with activists fearing the implementing agencies will now hesitate to take up new projects, thereby denying paid work to th...

Vidarbha was decked in an exquisite white cotton harvest this winter when I visited. I was there to learn about the rural credit situation. Countering agrarian distress requires more than just providi...

The finance ministry has after four years of inaction expressed “in-principle” endorsement rather than clear support for a proposal that would have ensured sharper yearly wage increases under the ...

The Unravelling of MGNREGA makes an important contribution to the analysis of the performance of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme that was launched in 2006, following...

Successive Central governments have introduced targeted employment generation schemes to tackle the problem of chronic unemployment. Each scheme has a special focus. For instance, the Mahatma Gandhi N...

The first tribal woman from Kerala to qualify for the IAS told Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday that her parents were beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.Sreedhanya...