India’s criminal wastage: over 10 million works under MGNREGA incomplete or abandoned
Since April 2014, the rate of work completion has been declining at rapid pace, indicating that crucial assets for villages are not getting created
Opposition turns up the heat on Nitish government over MGNREGA funds scam
Non-profit report says nearly Rs 6,000 crore meant to be paid to wage labourers siphoned off
Monsoon 2023: What’s pushing demand for work under MGNREGS?
The rural employment scheme should be perceived from the lens of climate change adaptation measures, says expert
MGNREGA never intended to pay workers based on caste: Jean Drèze
Economist and honorary professor at the Delhi School of Economics, Jean Drèze speaks to Down To Earth
MGNREGA budget cut sends wrong signal, goes against Odisha’s successful policy experiment
Collaborative MGNREGA implementation in Odisha improved livelihoods; such efforts will be discouraged by budget cut
MGNREGA: Workers across 13 states protest to demand unpaid wages
Around Rs 2,800 crore are pending in wages from the Centre under MGNREGA for this financial year and around Rs 1,984 crore are pending from the …
Structural pitfalls of MGNREGA
It’s time to remove inherent flaws of the guaranteed wage programme MGNREGA that limit its poverty alleviation potential
Concrete truth of water structures built under MNREGA
The share of water structures constructed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has gone down from 20 per cent in 2014-…
Impact of MGNREGS: household income on rise, so is agricultural productivity
In the last one decade, it has also helped increase groundwater table by virtue of implementing a range of water conservation measures
Democracy under surveillance
West Bengal bureaucrats to monitor panchayat institutions, implement their decisions
Central funds freeze: MGNREGA workers in West Bengal trapped in vicious cycle of illness and poverty
Workers struggling to make ends meet, have had to put new and existing health issues aside
Mandatory digital attendance for MGNREGS will destroy it, activists warn
Lack of access to technology will discourage workers, drive them to work for cheaper wages outside of scheme
Indian lessons for Dilma Rousseff
Brazil's handling of its social programmes amidst a political crisis will have immense ramifications
MGNREGA: Workers call for scrapping of attendance scheme at Jantar Mantar protest
The NREGA Sangharsh Morcha alleged that the claims of government about smooth functioning of the scheme were false and misleading
No, economic recovery has not brought about a drop in MGNREGA job demand: Experts
Delayed wages due to a lack of funds has eroded the confidence of job seekers in MGNREGA; This has driven down demand for work under the scheme …
Flour surplus: Ponds transformed farming in villages of Jharkhand's Pakur
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act helped flood-hit Jhenagaria build back stronger
Civil society rejects recommendation of Nagesh Singh committee on MGNREGS
Activists say that the committee was set up to invalidate the recommendation of previous committee on wages under the employment gaurantee scheme
In Parliament on December 16, 2016
A round up of environment- and development-related discussions in the parliament today
From tailors to paani poori sellers: MGNREGA lends a hand to migrant returnees
DTE visited village Dhamna in Uttar Pradesh’s Jalaun district to see how life in rural India is being sustained by the biggest …
Unpaid for months, MGNREGA workers protest in national capital
3-day demonstation by workers from across the country; Demand for more funds allocation to employment programme
India’s poverty: There is no end to Surjit Bhalla’s imagination
The IMF executive director has just declared that India was nearly free of extreme poverty in 2020 and inequality was lowest in 40 years due to …
Is Jharkhand's ambitious Aadhaar linkage derailing MGNREGA?
For four years, Jharkhand has been experimenting with Aadhaar-MGNREGA link with missionary zeal. Its experience holds lessons for all the states …
Protocol to protect RTI activists in the works
If a single panchayat-level activist can expose corruption worth Rs 25 lakh, then each needs protection for effective implementation of …
Lawyer cum RTI activist who exposed MGNREGA scam in Bihar shot dead
Police accused of not providing protection to victim Ram Kumar Thakur and helping village mukhiya, the prime accused in the murder
Yes, India needs agrarian reform, but that which is pro-people, not pro-corporate
Here are the steps that central and state governments can take to adopt a pro-people and nature-friendly economic development model for Indian …