Mnregs

All the workers on the first site had been working for five weeks but had received no wages at all. I lifted the mud and stone-filled basket - it weighed more than 30 kgs.

The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday approved an extra 50 days of work for farmers/workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to help reduce rural distress in view of deficient monsoon.

Barely months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised MNREGS calling it a "living monument" of UPA's failures, the Rural Development Ministry today said the employment scheme has benefited villages by reducing distress migration and improving wage levels among the poor.

As many as 20,608 ponds have been dug in West Bengal over the past one year creating 1.25 crore man days of work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS), according to the West Bengal government.

A postmaster of a village in Champai district along the Mizoram-Myanmar border was arrested from a village of the neighbouring country while trying to escape with Rs 13 lakh drawn from MNREGS account, police said today.Lalrodinga (39), a postmaster at Vaphai village, withdrew the money to be distributed to the MNREGS beneficiaries in two villages f...

All the workers on the first site had been working for five weeks but had received no wages at all. I lifted the mud and stone-filled basket - it weighed more than 30 kgs.

The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday approved an extra 50 days of work for farmers/workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to help reduce rural distress in view of deficient monsoon.

Barely months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised MNREGS calling it a "living monument" of UPA's failures, the Rural Development Ministry today said the employment scheme has benefited villages by reducing distress migration and improving wage levels among the poor.

As many as 20,608 ponds have been dug in West Bengal over the past one year creating 1.25 crore man days of work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS), according to the West Bengal government.

A postmaster of a village in Champai district along the Mizoram-Myanmar border was arrested from a village of the neighbouring country while trying to escape with Rs 13 lakh drawn from MNREGS account, police said today.Lalrodinga (39), a postmaster at Vaphai village, withdrew the money to be distributed to the MNREGS beneficiaries in two villages f...