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The government has signalled that it wants to revisit the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme, arguing that it has not met its expected outcome of poverty alleviation. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Notwithstanding the BJP’s significant losses in rural constituencies in the 2024 general election, the first Budget of the new NDA…
Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Laying the groundwork for revisiting the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) as a poverty alleviation tool, Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran on July 22 noted in the Economic Survey that demand under the scheme was not a “real indicator” of rural distress. …
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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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IMF delegates participate in a news conference on the IMF release of the World Economic Outlook Update, at IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, on July 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Names of 5 crore MGNREGS workers deleted in 2022-23, Minister informs Lok Sabha Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh, in a written reply to the…
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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