Bihar hopes to complete the process of linking Aadhar cards of all job card holders under MGNREGS by mid-January as part of the Centre’s directive to states to implement Aadhar-based payment of wages to beneficiaries under the scheme, officials familiar with the matter said. “We currently have around 84% of job card holders whose bank accounts have been linked with …
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has witnessed the sharpest year-on-year increase in employment generation in its history in April 2021, government data shows, in a sign that the second Covid wave has caused major reverse migration adding to rural economic distress. According to rural development ministry data, around 22 million households have got work under the job …
