Tag: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Centre’s move to rename MGNREGS draws protest in Erode

July 1, 2026 admin

Members of the All Types of Differently Abled Persons and Caregivers Rights Association staged a copy-burning protest outside the Collectorate here on Wednesday (July 1, 2026), opposing the Union government’s move to rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) as the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-GRAM G). Wearing…

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Union Budget 2025: MGNREGS allocation unchanged at ₹86,000 crore

February 1, 2025 admin

While the Centre insists that the MGNREGS is a demand-driven scheme and additional funds are given when required, no upward revision was made in the ongoing financial year. | Photo Credit: V. Raju At a time when the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the flagship rural employment programme, is running on a…

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Will the FY26 Budget reverse the decline in social sector spending?

January 29, 2025 admin

Village women work under MGNREGA scheme at Jagannath Prasad village in Odisha | Photo Credit: Gerra Madhusudan 10751@Chennai The share of the Union Budget allocated for the social sector has declined rapidly in recent years. Data show that the outlays to most schemes under the rural development, education, health, and social welfare heads have either…

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2024 Interim Budget | Net zero gain for job guarantee scheme

February 1, 2024 admin

According to some estimates, as on February 1, the Centre owes ₹ 16,000 crores in wages under MGNREGS to the State governments. File | Photo Credit: S. Harpal Singh With allocation of ₹86,000 crore for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the budget for the scheme for the financial year 2024-25 has…

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Data | MGNREGS woes: Payment delays, Aadhaar seeding troubles and budget cuts

March 7, 2023 admin

Working under MGNREGS: Women workers begin desilting work as part of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) at Nidigattu village near Bheemunipatnam in Visakhapatnam district on April 23, 2020 | Photo Credit: DEEPAK KR From being called a “living monument of failure” to “digging holes,” the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee…

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A Budget without a vision for agriculture

February 1, 2023 admin

A farmer spreads fertilizer in a field, at a village in Madurai. | Photo Credit: PTI Globally, there is a twin crisis in agriculture: in food and in fertilizers. On the one hand, there are fears of a fall in the global production and availability of food. The rise in food inflation has been an…

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