Parliamentary panel raises concern over low MGNREGS wages
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Parliamentary panel raises concern over low MGNREGS wages

Live Mint  

New Delhi, Dec 13 Flagging low wages under MGNREGS, a Parliamentary panel has questioned why the remuneration under the flagship scheme was not linked to an inflation index. In view of Article 39 of the Constitution and to have parity in wages, the committee strongly recommends that MGNREGA beneficiaries must be paid wages without any disparity in order to bring equality in wages under MGNREGA across all states/Union territories urgently," the report said. The committee also recommended that the department spruce up its financial management of the scheme and tighten its grip on the fallacies that might have crept up in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme at the ground level for the earliest eradication of pendencies in wages and material components. The scheme -- often called MGNREGA or NREGA -- aims to enhance livelihood security of rural households by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

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Govt panel recommends overhaul of MGNREGS, adjusting wages every 5 years
3 weeks ago

Govt panel recommends overhaul of MGNREGS, adjusting wages every 5 years

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: A government panel has recommended a complete overhaul of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme including allocating more work in areas with a higher number of deprived households. The panel, formed by the ministry of rural development in October 2022 to study the performance of the states and governance under MGNREGS, also argued for a separate …

Committees Over Commitment: How Govt's High Level Panels Have Led Nowhere
4 months, 1 week ago

Committees Over Commitment: How Govt's High Level Panels Have Led Nowhere

The Quint  

In March 2024, the Ministry of Rural Development announced revised MGNREGA daily wage rates for FY25. The Committee also said, “It has been also brought to the notice of the Committee that a Central Government Committee on minimum wages, Anoop Satpathy Committee, had recommended that the wages under MGNREGA should be Rs 375/- per day.” The issue of MGNREGA wages …

MGNREGS demand not a real indicator of rural distress: Economic Survey
5 months, 2 weeks ago

MGNREGS demand not a real indicator of rural distress: Economic Survey

The Hindu  

Laying the groundwork for revisiting the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme 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. According to the survey, while Tamil Nadu has less than 1% of the poor population in …

When is Modi govt going to pay Karnataka's MGNREGS workers their wages, asks Congress
8 months, 1 week ago

When is Modi govt going to pay Karnataka's MGNREGS workers their wages, asks Congress

New Indian Express  

Elaborating on what he said were "jumla details", Ramesh said the Bagalkote-Kudachi line of the South-Western Railway has now been delayed by more than eight years. Despite the Karnataka government providing the land for the project free of cost, and contributing 50 per cent of the construction cost, the Modi government has "failed" to deliver on this project, he said. …

MGNREGA Wages Hiked in States
9 months, 1 week ago

MGNREGA Wages Hiked in States

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The government on Thursday revised wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme with hikes ranging between four and 10 per cent for different states. The increases were made on the 2023 wage rates under a scheme that is aimed at enhancing livelihood security of households in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of …

MGNREGS wage rates revised, hikes range between 4-10 per cent for different states
9 months, 2 weeks ago

MGNREGS wage rates revised, hikes range between 4-10 per cent for different states

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme have been revised, with hikes ranging between four and 10 per cent for different states. Haryana has the highest wage rate for unskilled workers under the scheme at Rs 374 a day, while Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland have the lowest at Rs 234, according to a notification. The …

Revised MGNREGS wage rates below Rs 400 a day as promised by Congress: Rahul
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Revised MGNREGS wage rates below Rs 400 a day as promised by Congress: Rahul

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The Congress slammed the Narendra Modi government on Thursday after it notified the revised MGNREGS wages for 2024-25, saying the daily wage rates in all states are well below the Rs 400 a day promised by the opposition party under its "Shramik NYAY" guarantees. Leaving aside the issue of whether this violates the spirit of the Model Code …

Centre likely to notify MGNREGS wage revision, calls it 'routine' exercise
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Centre likely to notify MGNREGS wage revision, calls it 'routine' exercise

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The Rural Development Ministry may notify revision in wage rates under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and it has received a clearance from the Election Commission as the poll code is in force, sources said on Thursday. The Centre determines wages under the flagship scheme under sub-section of section 6 of the Mahatma Gandhi National …

Wages under MGNREGA 'inadequate', 'not in consonance' rising cost of living: Parliamentary panel
11 months ago

Wages under MGNREGA 'inadequate', 'not in consonance' rising cost of living: Parliamentary panel

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The daily wages paid under the flagship rural employment scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, are inadequate and not in consonance with the rising cost of living, a parliamentary panel told the government on Thursday. "The committee finds the range of wages vary from as little as Rs 221 in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Rs …

MGNREGS is a demand-driven scheme, no question of deficit in it: Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh
1 year, 2 months ago

MGNREGS is a demand-driven scheme, no question of deficit in it: Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh

The Hindu  

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is a demand-driven programme and there is no question of a deficit, Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh said at a press conference in Delhi on Friday. West Bengal issue To repeated questions on the suspension of the MGNREGS, for nearly two years now, in West Bengal by the Centre invoking Section …

MGNREGA wagers paid more in Haryana than Punjab: MP Sanjeev Arora
1 year, 5 months ago

MGNREGA wagers paid more in Haryana than Punjab: MP Sanjeev Arora

Hindustan Times  

The Centre has admitted that there is a difference of wage rates of unskilled workers under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Punjab and Haryana. Rajya Sabha MP Sanjeev Arora had raised a question in this regard, to which Union minister of state for rural development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti submitted a reply in the ongoing Monsoon session. In …

SPOTLIGHT | MGNREGA under attack from the Narendra Modi government
1 year, 9 months ago

SPOTLIGHT | MGNREGA under attack from the Narendra Modi government

The Hindu  

Published : Apr 06, 2023 11:00 IST - 10 MINS READ In 2015, one year after he assumed office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mocked the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government, calling the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act a “living memorial” to the Congress’ failures. My political instinct tells me that MGNREGA should not be discontinued….” But those working …

MGNREGS wage rates revised by up to 10% for 2023-24 fiscal year
1 year, 9 months ago

MGNREGS wage rates revised by up to 10% for 2023-24 fiscal year

The Hindu  

The Centre has notified a hike in wage rates under the rural job guarantee programme for the 2023-24 financial year with Haryana having the highest daily wage at ₹357 per day and Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh the lowest at ₹221. The Union Ministry of Rural Development issued a notification on the change in wage rates under the Mahatma Gandhi National …

Govt hikes wages under MGNREGA scheme, effective from April 1
1 year, 9 months ago

Govt hikes wages under MGNREGA scheme, effective from April 1

Live Mint  

The government has hiked wage rates for rural jobs with Haryana state seeing the highest wage rate of ₹357 per day. In value terms, Haryana's daily wage rate is hiked to ₹357 per day from ₹331 per day. MNREGA is a demand driven wage employment Scheme which provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas …

MGNREGA Wage Hiked For 2023-24; Check Latest Rates In Different States
1 year, 9 months ago

MGNREGA Wage Hiked For 2023-24; Check Latest Rates In Different States

News 18  

The Centre has notified a hike in wage rates under the rural job guarantee programme for the 2023-24 financial year with Haryana having the highest daily wage at Rs 357 per day and Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh the lowest at Rs 221. The Union Ministry of Rural Development issued a notification on the change in wage rates under the Mahatma …

More funds for MGNREGS if needed, says Rural Development Ministry
1 year, 11 months ago

More funds for MGNREGS if needed, says Rural Development Ministry

The Hindu  

The cut in budgetary outlay for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme will not affect the programme’s objective of providing wage employment on demand and additional funds will be made available as and when the need arises, the Ministry of Rural Development said, in a clarification to news reports on the adverse impact of the budget cuts on the …

Laboured wages: On MGNREGS payments to States
2 years ago

Laboured wages: On MGNREGS payments to States

The Hindu  

A testy exchange in the Rajya Sabha between the Minister of State for Rural Development, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, and the Trinamool Congress MP, Jawhar Sircar, on the withholding of funds for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in West Bengal laid bare a key implementation issue — wage delays. The delay in the payment, which is contrary to …

Decentralise MGNREGS for better implementation, says study
2 years, 2 months ago

Decentralise MGNREGS for better implementation, says study

The Hindu  

An internal study commissioned by the Ministry of Rural Development has argued for decentralisation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, allowing for more “flexibility” at the ground level. The Ministry recently made public the report of the sixth Common Review Mission which surveyed seven States — Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Nagaland, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh — …

MGNREGA: Safety net looks fragile
2 years, 5 months ago

MGNREGA: Safety net looks fragile

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 24, 2022 18:00 IST Soon after becoming Prime Minister, Narendra Modi mocked the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Parliament and called it a monumental failure of the United Progressive Alliance government. MGNREGA, which guarantees 100 days of work a year to at least one member of every rural household, saved many of them from …

Plea on non-payment of MGNREGS wages in Supreme Court
2 years, 8 months ago

Plea on non-payment of MGNREGS wages in Supreme Court

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to list an application mentioned urgently by advocate Prashant Bhushan highlighting a "grave crisis" concerning crores of rural poor who were not getting their wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act even as the COVID-19 pandemic had driven them to the brink of desperation. ‘COVID-19 caused distress’ "The COVID pandemic has …

Corruption, pending payments mar implementation of rural schemes: Parliamentary panel
2 years, 9 months ago

Corruption, pending payments mar implementation of rural schemes: Parliamentary panel

The Hindu  

Fake job cards, widespread corruption, late uploading of muster rolls, and huge pending payments for wages and materials are among the issues hampering the MGNREGA scheme, apart from insufficient funding, according to a Parliamentary Standing Committee report submitted to the Lok Sabha today. “Genuine labourers not getting their dues while money keeps changing hands due to collusion of unscrupulous elements …

The Centre’s approach has eroded the very premise of MGNREGA
2 years, 10 months ago

The Centre’s approach has eroded the very premise of MGNREGA

The Hindu  

The disappointing allocation for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in the FY 2022-23 budget has created a buzz. However, what it does suggest is that the government had not revised its projections for the final quarter of this FY even while it announced supplementary grants worth ₹25,000 crore for MGNREGA in December 2021. However, according to the …

The worrying cutbacks in rural jobs guarantee outlay, in charts
2 years, 10 months ago

The worrying cutbacks in rural jobs guarantee outlay, in charts

Live Mint  

If the Centre holds its ground on allocations to the rural employment guarantee scheme, this important measure of last resort will end up offering about one-third fewer person-days of work in 2022-23, show Mint calculations. In a report to the Lok Sabha, the panel criticized the lower allocation for 2022-23 to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme, which …

Manipur panchayat members to protest if pending MGNREGA wages are not paid
2 years, 11 months ago

Manipur panchayat members to protest if pending MGNREGA wages are not paid

The Hindu  

he Manipur State Panchayat Parishad elected members and functionaries in the hill districts have announced that they will join the ongoing agitations in the six valley districts from February 9 if the pending amount related to MGNREGA wages is not released by the government on or before February 8. The agitating members and functionaries said that the Centre had sanctioned …

₹3,358 crore in MGNREGA wages not paid
2 years, 11 months ago

₹3,358 crore in MGNREGA wages not paid

The Hindu  

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act workers are still waiting for almost ₹3,360 crore in pending wage payments, with the largest pending payments in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, according to the government’s reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. In a written response to a question from Communist Party of India member John Brittas …

Jharkhand MGNREGS workers to get ₹225 minimum wage from April 1
3 years, 9 months ago

Jharkhand MGNREGS workers to get ₹225 minimum wage from April 1

Hindustan Times  

Labourers working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme will get ₹225 as minimum wage, effective from April 1, in Jharkhand, said an official on Friday. HT Image State rural development department has issued a letter to all deputy commissioners and concerned authorities to ensure the minimum wage to all MGNREGS labourers from Thursday. State rural development director …

Panel flags Centre’s meagre pensions
3 years, 10 months ago

Panel flags Centre’s meagre pensions

The Hindu  

The Centre must increase the “meagre” pensions provided for poor senior citizens, widows and disabled people, said the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development in its report submitted to the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. “The relevance of a marquee scheme like National Social Assistance Programme in reaching out to the poor and downtrodden section of the society does not go …

Jharkhand to ask Centre to revise MGNREGs minimum wage
4 years, 1 month ago

Jharkhand to ask Centre to revise MGNREGs minimum wage

Hindustan Times  

Jharkhand will soon send a proposal to the Centre to revise the minimum wage rate and the CFT provision per man-day for labourers working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Scheme, rural development officials said on Thursday. A worker gets a minimum wage of ₹194 after he digs 73 CFT soil in Jharkhand, while MGNREGS labourers in Andhra Pradesh …

MGNREGA Monthly Wages Double to Rs 1,000 Per Person Amid Pandemic: Report
4 years, 4 months ago

MGNREGA Monthly Wages Double to Rs 1,000 Per Person Amid Pandemic: Report

News 18  

The rural distress following the pandemic has seen the average monthly income per person under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 doubling to around Rs 1,000 in the first four months of the fiscal from Rs 509 in FY2020, according to an analysis by Crisil. The April-July period typically sees around 25 per cent more work execution …

Data show disparity in MGNREGA wages across States
5 years, 3 months ago

Data show disparity in MGNREGA wages across States

The Hindu  

With the Centre’s plan to peg MGNREGA wages to inflation, a look at the current wages shows a wide disparity in the notified wages among States. While some States notified relatively higher wages, they paid out lesser than that amount on average during all months in FY19, while some States which notified lesser wages paid out that wage consistently. image/svg+xml …

A rural stimulus: On MGNREGA wage hike
5 years, 3 months ago

A rural stimulus: On MGNREGA wage hike

The Hindu  

The government’s statistical machinery has begun work on revising the indices that capture the trends in consumer prices experienced in rural India. But two-thirds of the dated inflation index is still driven by food prices, which may effectively end up understating the price pressures facing rural households. This depressant effect could be accentuated when low food inflation coincides with decelerating …

Government to peg MGNREGA wages to inflation in bid to hike incomes
5 years, 3 months ago

Government to peg MGNREGA wages to inflation in bid to hike incomes

The Hindu  

Staring at a slump in rural demand and a slowdown in the rural economy, the Centre plans to inject more money into the UPA’s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme by linking wages under the Act to an updated inflation index, which will be revised annually. However, some economists question whether linking wage rates to a better …

Opinion | How MGNREGA transformed into a monument of failure
5 years, 5 months ago

Opinion | How MGNREGA transformed into a monument of failure

Live Mint  

There is now a plethora of evidence that the economy has been cooling down over the last three years. MGNREGA was envisaged as a provider of rural employment to casual workers at government-mandated minimum wages set above market wages. The National Sample Survey Office has been tracking wages received by casual workers employed under MGNREGA and private markets since 2007-08, …

Modi government created rural distress: Congress
5 years, 9 months ago

Modi government created rural distress: Congress

The Quint  

New Delhi, March 29 The Congress on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of quietly squeezing funds meant for the MGNREGA scheme, and said pro-rich and anti-poor policies of his government created "rampant and unimaginable rural distress" in the past five years. Congress Spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi said even as Modi and his ministers mocked the minimum income guarantee scheme "Nyay" …

Budget 2019: With signs of rural distress looming large on economy, MGNREGA could be hope for bringing some cheer
5 years, 11 months ago

Budget 2019: With signs of rural distress looming large on economy, MGNREGA could be hope for bringing some cheer

Firstpost  

It remains to be seen whether the increased allocations will help manage clearing the wage dues as labour wage expenditure has already crossed Rs 55,000 crore under MGNREGA this year. To maintain the current level of spending for MGNREGA, and given the concerns relating to inflation-indexed wage rate, going by conservative estimates, the 2019 Budget should earmark not less than …

States may have to fund for MGNREGA wages
5 years, 11 months ago

States may have to fund for MGNREGA wages

The Hindu  

States struggling to pay workers under a national employment guarantee scheme have received additional funds from the Centre to meet their pending liabilities, but the money is unlikely to be sufficient for the rest of the financial year. The financial statement of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme shows that as on January 30, 19 States and …

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