-The Times of India RANCHI: Labourers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) would have hardly imagined that a day would come when they would be paid their wages, which were pending for more than two years now. As many as 91 labourers, who worked with the hope of supporting their families in the winter of 2010, were pleasantly surprised when they were paid not only their outstanding...
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Denied wages for two years under MGNREGA, workers compensated -Girija Shivakumar
-The Hindu A total of Rs. 5.17 lakhs paid as compensation to 91 workers Workers who have been denied wages for over two years under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act were awarded compensation of Rs. 2,000 each in a landmark order passed by the Jharkhand Labour Commission in Murhigram panchayat, Khunti block. According to the MGNREGA Sahayata Kendra which pioneered the move, on Tuesday, a total of 91 workers were...
More »New index could boost NREGA wages by 9.5% -Sreelatha Menon
-The Business Standard Currently wages are linked to CPI AL Mahendra Dev who heads the new committee set up by the Rural Development Ministry to determine a new index for NREGA wages said that his job is not to engineer an increase in wages to suit political interests. My job is to find a suitable index for NREGA wages based on which a new baseline wage can be fixed for 2014,...
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-The Business Standard The structural changes in India's rural workforce Seldom in the past has the country's labour market gone through structural changes faster than it has in recent years. Apart from a sharp decline in the proportion of workers employed in agriculture, the perceptible withdrawal of women from the workforce is the most striking feature of India's labour market. Going by the numbers the census and the National Sample Survey Office...
More »NREGA benefits are mixed: Oxford study -Prasun Sonwalkar
-The Hindustan Times UPA's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (NREGA) reduces child malnutrition, but only in the short term, says University of Oxford study. The first effort to analyse the effect of NREGA on child nutrition, the study was carried out on infants in 528 households in Durgarpur district of Rajasthan. During the study period, 53% of the households received payment under NREGA. "Participation in NREGA reduced acute malnutrition, but...
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