Rural Employment Guarantee Programme

"In rural areas, the demand for MGNREGA in the recent past is coming down," said Nirmala Sitharaman, referring to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

The Centre has allocated Rs 73,000 crore to the rural employment guarantee programme MGNREGA for the next fiscal 2021-22, substantially lower than the actual expenditure of Rs 1.11 lakh crore in the current fiscal which included an additional Rs 40,000 crore for the scheme given by the government in the wake of the pandemic's impact on the economy.

"A success rate below 50 per cent is nothing to be proud of," is how the Supreme Court spoke of the country's rural employment guarantee scheme while delivering it's judgement on drought and pulling up state governments and the Centre.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter questioning his "political wisdom" on what he says is the government's turn around on the UPA government's flagship rural employment guarantee scheme, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or MGNREGA.

The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to apprise it of the current status of welfare schemes like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), National Food Security and mid-day meal in 12 drought-hit states across the country.

A special court in Visakhapatnam on Friday sentenced former branch manager of Bank of Baroda in East Godavari district and fourteen others to five years jail in connection with a Rs 80.34 lakh fraud.

India's rural employment guarantee programme MNREGA has been ranked as the world's largest public works programme, providing social security net to almost 15 per cent of the country's population, the World Bank has said.

Reserve Bank Governor Dr Raghuram Rajan has dismissed the notion that the rural employment guarantee programme is behind the massive spurt in wages in rural areas.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or MGNREGA - UPA's flagship scheme - has accelerated the pace of financial inclusion in villages, and accounts opened under the programme would help in the direct cash benefit transfer scheme of the government.

Having launched the ambitious Direct Benefits Transfer programme, the Government has made changes in rules to allow benefits of schemes other than Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) to be deposited in post offices for beneficiaries.

"In rural areas, the demand for MGNREGA in the recent past is coming down," said Nirmala Sitharaman, referring to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

The Centre has allocated Rs 73,000 crore to the rural employment guarantee programme MGNREGA for the next fiscal 2021-22, substantially lower than the actual expenditure of Rs 1.11 lakh crore in the current fiscal which included an additional Rs 40,000 crore for the scheme given by the government in the wake of the pandemic's impact on the economy.

"A success rate below 50 per cent is nothing to be proud of," is how the Supreme Court spoke of the country's rural employment guarantee scheme while delivering it's judgement on drought and pulling up state governments and the Centre.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter questioning his "political wisdom" on what he says is the government's turn around on the UPA government's flagship rural employment guarantee scheme, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or MGNREGA.

The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to apprise it of the current status of welfare schemes like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), National Food Security and mid-day meal in 12 drought-hit states across the country.

A special court in Visakhapatnam on Friday sentenced former branch manager of Bank of Baroda in East Godavari district and fourteen others to five years jail in connection with a Rs 80.34 lakh fraud.

India's rural employment guarantee programme MNREGA has been ranked as the world's largest public works programme, providing social security net to almost 15 per cent of the country's population, the World Bank has said.

Reserve Bank Governor Dr Raghuram Rajan has dismissed the notion that the rural employment guarantee programme is behind the massive spurt in wages in rural areas.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or MGNREGA - UPA's flagship scheme - has accelerated the pace of financial inclusion in villages, and accounts opened under the programme would help in the direct cash benefit transfer scheme of the government.

Having launched the ambitious Direct Benefits Transfer programme, the Government has made changes in rules to allow benefits of schemes other than Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) to be deposited in post offices for beneficiaries.