In a bid to stop delays and irregularities in wage payment under the mega National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the Centre on Friday made it compulsory for the states to pay wages through ...

JAIPUR: After the judgment upholding the right to privacy was delivered in the Supreme Court last August, bank account numbers into which payments are made for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment ...

Worried over reports of the delay in wage payment to workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the government is considering a proposal to pay part of the ...

Village women work at a dry pond under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in a village on the outskirts of Kolkata. | Reuters/Ahmad Masood Transaction failures in Direct ...

NEW DELHI: Delayed payments, largescale deletion of names of workers and frequent technical glitches in several states continue to hobble the country’s flagship rural job guarantee programme, the ...

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is no stranger to reform. In fact, the zeal with which reforms are introduced often outpaces the capacity to adapt. Every time the ...

The government has finalised an indexing system of minimum wages for various categories of labour to match the inflation after UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ...

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 ...

It was midday when Anish and I reached Karon, a block headquarter in Jharkhand, 45 km south of the district headquarter, Deoghar. We were part of a social audit team, scrutinising the implementation ...