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Laboured wages: On MGNREGS payments to States
-The Hindu Any delay in funds to be paid to States for Mahatma Gandhi National rural Employment Guarantee Scheme payments is unethical A testy exchange in the Rajya Sabha between the Minister of State for rural Development, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, and the Trinamool Congress MP, Jawhar Sircar, on the withholding of funds for the Mahatma Gandhi National rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in West Bengal laid bare a key implementation issue —...
More »We did not manage to double the income of Indian farmers -Himanshu
-Livemint.com Multiple surveys indicate that we not only missed that goal but our rural economy is in deep distress On 28 February 2016, at a farmer rally in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the government’s intention of doubling the income of farmers by 2022, a year marking 75 years of India’s independence. That it was not just political rhetoric but a real project was evident from the follow-up. An...
More »MGNREGA: Central squeeze to cost 30 lakh Bengal families -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph No other state has ever been denied funds for such a long period under the scheme, which provides for up to 100 days of paid, unskilled work to every rural household in a year New Delhi: The Centre’s decision to stop funds to Bengal under the Mahatma Gandhi National rural Employment Guarantee Act will have denied job opportunities to 30 lakh rural families in the state this year, a study...
More »Fact check: Is the demand for MGNREGA jobs declining, as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman claims? -Nidhi Jacob
-Factchecker.in/ Scroll.in MGNREGA is a social security and employment scheme which aims to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed employment in a year to every rural household. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while addressing the Lower House of the Parliament on December 14, claimed that the demand for work under the Mahatma Gandhi National rural Employment Guarantee Act is declining. “There is now very obviously a declining demand for jobs in the...
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