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September 4, 2025, 05:54 PM - 2 min read
This will allow additional works to be undertaken as per the actual demand for employment in rural areas, particularly for the repair and restoration of damaged infrastructure.
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May 19, 2025, 05:56 PM - 2 min read
According to police, the accused were involved in a fraudulent scheme where several contracted agencies received payments from the government without completing the assigned work or supplying the required materials under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
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February 23, 2025, 05:21 PM - 2 min read
A large group of JKHA members gathered near the Press Enclave, holding banners and shouting slogans, demanding immediate action from the government to improve their living conditions in Jammu and Kashmir.
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February 11, 2025, 02:19 PM - 3 min read
Singhal, a 2000-batch IAS officer, was arrested for allegedly embezzling crores of MGNREGA funds in Khunti.
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January 11, 2025, 06:34 PM - 2 min read
The matter came to light during a recent District-Level Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee meeting, where Kurukshetra MP Naveen Jindal raised concerns over MGNREGA works amounting to Rs 18 crore completed over the past 10 months.
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December 23, 2024, 05:18 PM - 2 min read
Thousands protested in Churachandpur, Manipur, demanding unpaid MGNREGA wages. Villagers, citing delays of over two months, insisted on receiving payments before Christmas. The Village Council criticised directives linking wages to unrelated social work, calling it a rights violation.
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December 20, 2024, 10:02 PM - 3 min read
In the current fiscal year, over 35 lakh MGNREGS job cards were deleted for various reasons, while 38 lakh new job cards were issued. Minister Kamlesh Paswan assured that job cards cannot be deleted solely due to non-linkage with Aadhaar.
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October 27, 2024, 04:11 PM - 2 min read
A report by The Hindu reveals that over 8.4 million workers were removed from the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) between April and September 2024, with Tamil Nadu being the hardest hit, as the deletions coincide with the government's push for the Aadhaar-Based Payment System.
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March 28, 2024, 10:31 AM - 2 min read
The average MGNREGA wage increase across India is ₹28 per day, bringing the average wage for 2024-25 to ₹289 as against ₹261 for FY’23-24.
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February 6, 2024, 06:27 PM - 2 min read
The ED was conducting searches at the residence of a West Bengal Civil Services (WBCS) officer in Salt Lake's IA Block. He was earlier posted as a block development officer in Dhaniakhali in Hooghly district, they said.
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February 6, 2024, 01:15 PM - 2 min read
Senior TMC leader Shashi Panja asserted, “This is an attempt to divert public and media’s attention from the TMC’s ongoing dharna demanding clearance of state’s dues. This is a clear example of vendetta politics.” However, the West Bengal BJP dismissed these allegations as “baseless”.
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February 3, 2024, 04:46 PM - 2 min read
West Bengal has 21 lakh MGNREGA workers. Funds of whom have been withheld by the Centre, claim the TMC. The West Bengal state government has called out the Centre on several occasions to clear the dues.
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