-IANS/ National Herald In a shocking incident, four school-going children were issued Job Cards, and bank accounts were opened in their names, under the MGNREGA in Gujarat's Chhota Udaipur district In a shocking incident, four school-going children were issued Job Cards, and bank accounts were opened in their names, under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Gujarat's Chhotaudepur district. As the district administration learned about this, the District Development...
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Corruption, pending payments mar implementation of rural schemes: Parliamentary panel
-The Hindu Genuine labourers not getting their dues while money keeps changing hands due to collusion of unscrupulous elements, says report Fake Job Cards, widespread corruption, late uploading of muster rolls, and huge pending payments for wages and materials are among the issues hampering the MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) scheme, apart from insufficient funding, according to a Parliamentary Standing Committee report submitted to the Lok Sabha today. The...
More »As told to Parliament (December 22, 2021): Over 150 million households have jobs cards under MGNREGA
-Down to Earth All that was discussed in the House through the day More than 150 million households have Job Cards under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in the country as of December 18, 2021, Niranjan Jyoti, minister of state in the rural development ministry, told the Rajya Sabha. Uttar Pradesh had a maximum number of households having Job Cards (21,125,892) and Goa had a minimum number of households...
More »How India’s informal economy is shrinking, and why that’s good news in the long term -Ila Patnaik and Radhika Pandey
-ThePrint.in Greater formalisation will see a shift from low-paying, labour-intensive jobs in informal sector to more productive, formal-sector jobs. This could lead to disruption in short term. A report issued by the State Bank of India (SBI) last month estimated that India’s informal economy has shrunk to 15-20 percent of the GDP in 2020-21 from 52 percent in 2017-18. The report uses employment and digitisation to assess the extent of formalization in...
More »90% of MGNREGA Funds for 2021-22 Financial Year Utilised, Remaining Cover Just 13 Days of Work: Report -Ronak Chhabra
-Newsclick.in As per a report authored by People's Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG), 90& of the total allocated funds to the MGNREGA scheme had been utilised, even as five more months are left for the current financial year to end. On Friday, the "NREGA National Tracker" report, authored by People's Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG), was released for the April-September period of this year in a virtual press conference jointly held with...
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