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Rural employment

  • India’s unemployment rose to two-year high of 10.05% in October, says think tank CMIE

    India’s unemployment rose to two-year high of 10.05% in October, says think tank CMIE

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 02, 2023 · 07:54 pm
  • How the rural employment guarantee scheme is a double-edged sword for women

    How the rural employment guarantee scheme is a double-edged sword for women

    Sunaina Kumar, IndiaSpend.com
    · Sep 02, 2022 · 01:30 pm
  • India’s rural employment scheme can build climate resilience – but only if it is fully utilised

    India’s rural employment scheme can build climate resilience – but only if it is fully utilised

    Mahima Jain
    · Aug 07, 2022 · 09:30 pm
  • India’s water management programmes haven’t cultivated water security or meaningful livelihoods

    India’s water management programmes haven’t cultivated water security or meaningful livelihoods

    Nidhi Batra, IndiaSpend.com
    · Mar 27, 2022 · 07:30 pm
  • Rs 3,358.14 crore MGNREGA wages not paid to workers, Centre tells Rajya Sabha

    Rs 3,358.14 crore MGNREGA wages not paid to workers, Centre tells Rajya Sabha

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 03, 2022 · 11:39 am
  • Why India should spend more on its rural employment scheme

    Why India should spend more on its rural employment scheme

    Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend.com Geeta Devi, IndiaSpend.com
    · Aug 24, 2021 · 01:30 pm
  • Budget: Centre allocates Rs 73,000 crore to MGNREGA – 34% less than revised estimate for 2020-’21

    Budget: Centre allocates Rs 73,000 crore to MGNREGA – 34% less than revised estimate for 2020-’21

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 02, 2021 · 09:20 am
  • Too good to be true: How MNREGA ‘improvements’ are actually costing workers their wages

    Too good to be true: How MNREGA ‘improvements’ are actually costing workers their wages

    Ankita Aggarwal
    · Sep 15, 2017 · 07:30 am
  • How the Centre and state governments bypassed villagers' plans for MGNREGA to push their own targets

    How the Centre and state governments bypassed villagers' plans for MGNREGA to push their own targets

    Ankita Aggarwal
    · Feb 19, 2017 · 07:30 am
  • Over WhatsApp texts, Centre instructs states not to generate work under MNREGA: Business Standard

    Over WhatsApp texts, Centre instructs states not to generate work under MNREGA: Business Standard

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 24, 2016 · 10:06 pm