-The Indian Express The first nine months of the new BJP government has only underscored its anti-poor, anti-rural image. The substantive and substantial changes in rural development have been restrictive in nature. The new government has worked to undermine the legal and financial framework of MgNREGA, substantially weakened the provisions of the land acquisition act through an ordinance and, through year-end budget cuts, they have undermined almost every social sector programme, reportedly...

-TwoCircles.net Tohana-Fatehabad (Haryana): A huge gathering of poor and marginalized people, large number of them women, took place in Tohana (Fatehabad) in Haryana on December 30, 2014 against corruption and irregularity in providing job under MgNREGA, and proposed dilution in the act. The gathering of over 2000 people was jointly called by National Alliance for People's Movement (NAPM), Khudai Khidmadgar and SBYF and was planned against the government for allegedly failing to...

-The Hindu Business Line   Departments, Ministries asked to fast-track the scheme New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for integration of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MgNREGA) with the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana. This will help in creating more irrigation assets, he said. A day after clearing changes in the Land Acquisition Act, Modi chaired a high-level meeting on Tuesday on the irrigation scheme and asked the Departments...

-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Rural Development Year end Review -2014-15 The Ministry of Rural Development is likely to introduce Mobile Monitoring System for effective implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, MgNREGA. The Monitoring System will be introduced on a pilot basis to allow real time monitoring of all works, workers attendance and work site measurement. The move is likely to plug leakages in the rural job scheme. Moreover,...

-Livemint.com Evaluating the impact of MgNREGA on rural labour markets, and on urban labour markets via seasonal migration Policymakers and academics are actively debating the efficacy of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MgNREGA) and whether or not the new government should retain it in its current form in recent research. We have evaluated the impact of MgNREGA on rural labour markets, and on urban labour markets via seasonal migration....