MGNREGS News

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reacting to the central team's visit for rapid checking of PMAY-G houses said, "The Centre must stop politics ... Ask it to release the funds for the 100 days' scheme."

Evaluating the effectiveness of MGNREGS, the Economic Survey today said there is misallocation of resources under the rural employment scheme as only one-third of funds are spent on states which account more than 50 per cent of poor in the country.

If you are one of those registered under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), remember this – from April 1, Aadhaar will be compulsory under the scheme for work.

Government on Wednesday sought the approval of the Lok Sabha for gross additional expenditure of Rs 59,978.29 crore as part of the Second Batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants for the fiscal 2016-17.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the progress of Aadhar and Direct Benefit Transfer programmes at a high level meeting yesterday, where he was informed about the progress made in Aadhar number generation, and seeding of official databases with Aadhar numbers to streamline the process of identification of beneficiaries, and to ensure proper targeting of benefits to the people.