The Centre has asked the state governments to ensure that NREGA job cards are "complete in all respect" and verified before being issued as it will now be a valid document for opening a bank account.

Mahatma Gandhi NREGS is a demand-driven wage employment scheme that provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one ...

Women work at a dry pond under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Vastara village on the outskirts of Kolkata in February, 2014. | Ahmad Masood/Reuters The impact of the ...

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) has undergone significant changes in 2024, aiming to ...

Visakhapatnam: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) works have empowered more women in Andhra Pradesh than their male counterparts in the last five years. As per Union ...

Vadodara: After an offence was registered regarding the alleged scam in the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREGA) scheme in Dahod district involving a BJP minister's sons based on the Congress's ...

The Centre is running the rural employment guarantee programme as if it is a compulsion without recognizing its enormous potential to deal with the ongoing rural economic crisis. Numerous civil ...

Opposition members on Tuesday created uproar in Rajya Sabha during Question Hour when Rural Development minister C P Joshi gave credit to Congress for giving Rs 100 as daily wages under National Rural ...

Civil society group NREGA Sangharsh Morcha has called the latest wage revision under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) for 2021-22 extremely paltry. The increase is less than 5 ...

With the specter of drought looming over more than 250 districts across the country, the rural development ministry has intensified efforts of taking up water conservation works under the National ...