Ever since it was passed in 2005, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act – which guarantees rural households 100 days of work a year – has generated intense debate. But the terms of the debate ...

Our Times of India (October 23 2014) critique of 28 economists’ letter defending NREGA (October 13 2014) has elicited a further response by only six of them in the Sunday Times (November 9 2014). This ...

The "highest ever allocation" to NREGA (which also led to it trending on Twitter) in the Union Budget has provided a useful opportunity to raise some pressing issues related to the implementation of ...

Vadodara: After an offence was registered regarding the alleged scam in the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREGA) scheme in Dahod district involving a BJP minister's sons based on the Congress's ...

Travelling through drought-hit Marathwada, in village after village we came across complaints of little or no NREGA work. Solapur: As thousands of villages in the country come under the grip of ...

Women work at a dry pond under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Vastara village on the outskirts of Kolkata in February, 2014. | Ahmad Masood/Reuters The impact of the ...

NREGA is an Indian legislation enacted on August 25, 2005 and it came into force on February 6, 2006, now covers all of rural India. It is also known as National Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is no stranger to reform. In fact, the zeal with which reforms are introduced often outpaces the capacity to adapt. Every time the ...

According to official data, about 102.5 million people demanded work under the scheme in FY23 as against 123.4 million in FY24. In an indication that the labour market is now recovering post the ...

One neglected aspect of the debate on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) relates to the process aspects of the programme. In the process of planning works, organising employment, ...

In the last 15 years, India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 has emerged as the world’s largest public works programme. The law was a lifeline during the pandemic when the NREGA ...