Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Mgnregs

Wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme have been revised, with hikes ranging between four and 10 per cent for different states.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has written to Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh, requesting to release the funds under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

The Bihar government has cancelled more than 1.2 crore "inactive" job cards under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the last one year, a minister said on Monday.

A civil engineering student, Rosy Behera, has been working on a road project under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for the last three weeks to deposit a sum of Rs 24,500 in order to obtain her diploma certificate.

Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi, in Wayanad today to address election rallies, said Sreedhanya Suresh, Kerala's first tribal woman to clear the Civil Services Exam, had benefitted from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today urged a group of chief ministers, set up by the Centre, to consider the need to waive institutional loans of farmers and the formation of adequate budgetary provision for it by the union government.

Around 300 women have turned well-diggers in a nondescript village in northern Palakkad district of Kerala to find a solution to the acute water scarcity in the hamlet and earn a living.

Beginning April 1, people living in rural areas need to have Aadhaar under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) that mandates 100 days work for a household annually.

The Centre will "geo-tag" all assets created through works carried out under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) since 2006, Union Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Tuesday.

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.

Congress-led UDF government in Kerala today asked the Centre to include new works like paddy cultivation, homestead farming, coconut farming and coir yarn production under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREG) Scheme.

An NGO claims that officials and politicians have been listing fictitious workers and pinching their remuneration. Not just Sachin Tendulkar but his entire family is listed as beneficiaries of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), says the NGO.

A probe has been ordered into the allegation that child labourers were being engaged in executing works of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in Ganjam district."District Level Monitoring Committee will inquire into the allegation of child labour engaged in the MGNREGS work," District Collector Krishan Kumar said.

Wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme have been revised, with hikes ranging between four and 10 per cent for different states.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has written to Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh, requesting to release the funds under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

The Bihar government has cancelled more than 1.2 crore "inactive" job cards under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the last one year, a minister said on Monday.

A civil engineering student, Rosy Behera, has been working on a road project under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for the last three weeks to deposit a sum of Rs 24,500 in order to obtain her diploma certificate.

Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi, in Wayanad today to address election rallies, said Sreedhanya Suresh, Kerala's first tribal woman to clear the Civil Services Exam, had benefitted from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today urged a group of chief ministers, set up by the Centre, to consider the need to waive institutional loans of farmers and the formation of adequate budgetary provision for it by the union government.

Around 300 women have turned well-diggers in a nondescript village in northern Palakkad district of Kerala to find a solution to the acute water scarcity in the hamlet and earn a living.

Beginning April 1, people living in rural areas need to have Aadhaar under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) that mandates 100 days work for a household annually.

The Centre will "geo-tag" all assets created through works carried out under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) since 2006, Union Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Tuesday.

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.

Congress-led UDF government in Kerala today asked the Centre to include new works like paddy cultivation, homestead farming, coconut farming and coir yarn production under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREG) Scheme.

An NGO claims that officials and politicians have been listing fictitious workers and pinching their remuneration. Not just Sachin Tendulkar but his entire family is listed as beneficiaries of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), says the NGO.

A probe has been ordered into the allegation that child labourers were being engaged in executing works of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in Ganjam district."District Level Monitoring Committee will inquire into the allegation of child labour engaged in the MGNREGS work," District Collector Krishan Kumar said.