The Act gives the Centre sweeping powers while shifting financial and administrative burdens onto states. Drèze says MGNREGA’s deeper achievement was not just income support but empowerment—especially ...

Jaipur: Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has flagged pending liabilities of Rs 2,014.39 crore under MGNREGA scheme in Rajasthan from 2019-20 to 2023-24, with the bulk of the dues linked ...

A CAG audit exposes severe MGNREGA failures in Rajasthan, revealing ₹2,000 crore in dues, unpaid workers, and massive ...

Supreme Court recognizes MGNREGA as a beneficial scheme, emphasizing work as a means to aspirations, not a fundamental right.

MGNREGA altered the citizen-state relationship in rural India. It gave workers leverage—against landlords, contractors, and local officials. Women, in particular, used the programme to negotiate wages ...

Although Tamil Nadu increased the daily MGNREGA wage to Rs 345, rural workers are averaging only Rs 278. The discrepancy is ...

Supreme Court praises MGNREGA as effective, urging examination of minimum wage laws amid concerns over new employment ...

Congress on December 27 announced a nationwide protest campaign titled ‘MGNREGA Bachao Abhiyan’, scheduled to begin on January 5, 2026, against the Centre’s decision to repeal the Mahatma Gandhi ...

The replacement of MGNREGA with the G-RAM-G framework has triggered concern among states and critics, who argue the changes go far beyond renaming, diluting decentralisation and recasting ...

End Of MGNREGA? What VB–G Ram G Means For Rural Workers, Farmers And Viksit Bharat Plan “Going by the entire provisions of VB-G-Ram-G, we can conclude that all the rights and capacity will be fixed by ...

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 15 (ANI): Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge on Thursday said that the State government would challenge the scrapping of the MGNREGA scheme constitutionally and ...

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), passed in Parliamnet in August, 2005, and implemented in February 2006, guarantees up to 100 days of wage employment per year to ...