CM Mamata Banerjee also expressed her concern over the curtailment of allotment for the MGNREGA scheme during an administrative review meeting in Calcutta ...

NREGA Watch finds low funds, delayed wage payment defeating spirit...

Readers write in from Calcutta, Andhra Pradesh, Kanpur, Chennai...

This year’s budget has resisted populist pressures...

Debamalya Nandi, a researcher studying the MGNREGA work trend, said the allocation was 'very disappointing'...

The Union budget is an embodiment of unequal fiscal policy...

The Centre has asked the state government to start full social audit from January and 'ensure full recovery of amount involved in social audit findings on misappropriation'...

Incidentally under section 22 of the MGNREGA 2005, use of the machines are prohibited as the scheme envisages employment for the rural populace...

However, volume growth fell to 2 per cent compared with 4 per cent in the July-September quarter...

A total of 29,059 schemes were verified in 1,118 panchayat areas in all the 24 districts by the audit, which was completed in October and was submitted a few days back...