Rural Employment

MGNREGA gets highest-ever total allocation in a fiscal at additional Rs 6,000 cr after concerns raised over fund crunch

On 1 January, over 99 percent fund of the MGNREGA scheme was reportedly exhausted, three months before the end of the financial year.

Migration crisis in UP's Lalitpur village marks a crucial failure of govt in creating better rural employment opportunities

The crisis of migration is amplified in Uttar Pradesh, where 26.9 lakh more people migrated out than migrated in, the highest in the country. It is a problem that has been growing over time — between 2001 and 2011, more than 58 lakh people in the age group of 20-29 years left the state in search of jobs.

Govt preparing ground for decline of MGNREGS by keeping wages constant year after year, says economist Jean Dreze

The stagnation of real wages, along with the government’s chronic inability to ensure timely and reliable wage payments, is discouraging rural workers from taking up MGNREGS work

Delayed payments under guaranteed rural employment programme MNREGA decline to 6-yr low: SBI report

Delayed payments under the guaranteed rural employment programme MNREGA fell to 6-year low of Rs 67,956 crore last fiscal ended 31 March, a SBI research report said

Despite 'record' allocations, 57% of MGNREGS wages due to workers remained unpaid at the end of April 2018

Millions of MGNREGS workers share Prajapati’s predicament–57% of wages due to workers were unpaid at the end of April 2018, as per government data.

Budget 2018: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's rural package is a leg-up to the farm economy

Union Budget 2018 focusses on strengthening the rural economy in all aspects including from farmers to the salaried class, cutting across the poor and middle class society

Budget 2018: Rural education, health, nutrition urgently require increased funding from Centre

A look at the past Budgets suggests that while housing, sanitation and rural employment are likely to get a push, the need of the hour is to have a clear strategy and priority for education, health and nutrition

The real Padman: How A Muruganantham launched a sanitary napkin revolution in India

Akshay Kumar's Padman has brought the focus back on Arunachalam Muruganantham, the innovator/social entrepreneur/menstrual hygiene campaigner on whom the film is based

Budget 2016: Trying to decode this financial maze made me hate fiscal deficits

Naturally everyone at this get together is either a banker or a chartered accountant and I find myself cornered by two financial consultants and a lady from the foreign exchange department of a big bank.