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 …
The significant gains in Monthly Per Capita Expenditure in the 2022-23 Household Consumption Expenditure Survey conducted by the National Statistical Office, compared to the level reported in 2011-12, have made headlines. Animal resources and more intensive vegetable and horticulture cultivation in rain-fed areas on account of land development and water conservation in convergence with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment …