MGNREGA Wages

In a notification released on March 24, the Union Ministry of Rural Development declared revisions to the rural job guarantee programme for the financial year 2023-24

The Centre has notified a hike in wage rates under the rural job guarantee programme for the 2023-24 financial year with Haryana having the highest daily wage at Rs 357 per day and Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh the lowest at Rs 221. The Union Ministry of Rural Development issued a notification on the change in wage rates under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on March 24. The notification was issued under Section 6 (1) of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005, that says the Centre may, by notification, specify the wage rate for its beneficiaries. The wage hikes, which range from Rs 7 to Rs 26, will come into effect from April 1. Compared to last year's rates, Rajasthan registered the highest percentage increase in wages. The revised wage for Rajasthan is Rs 255 per day, up from Rs 231 in 2022-23. Bihar and Jharkhand have registered a percentage increase of around eight from last year. Last year, the daily wage for

Malpractices under MGNREGA must be addressed

Some states have been using more than permitted MGNREGA funds to build rural infrastructure instead of generating livelihood opportunities for rural needy, says Central government

In total, around 6.41 million works under individual land has been undertaken in 2021-22 financial year, of which Bihar leads the pack.

Many non-official parameters do indicate a rebound, but high inflation seems to hitting hard, eroding all gains

Other features of an ideal scheme include adequate funding to boost Urban Local Bodies, minimum wages for workers, and exclusion of contractors from projects, among other things

The study done on 1.8 mn transactions between April and September, by LibTech India and the People's Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG)

The demand for work under MGNREGS was the highest ever in 2020 after migrants returned to villages following the national lockdown

The 4% rise in average all-India minimum wages is almost the same as CPI inflation rate between 2015-16 and 2019-20, meaning that in real terms, the increase has been insignificant

The move aims to encourage employment opportunities

Nearly 13% of surveyed workers reported rejected payments and most were unaware of the reason for rejection

There are questions as to whether the support provided so far is adequate and if the government further needs to augment its budgetary allocation

The Railways has asked Zones to prepare a list of labourers against the kind of work they can be involved in

In a Q&A, S N Subrahmanyan, MD and CEO of the engineering group says he expects govt and public sector capex to be lower by Rs 3-4 trillion this year

Instead of the promised 100 days of work, average work provided stood just shy of one-fifth of it in this financial year till June 9

Significantly expanding the budget for the rural employment guarantee scheme is vital, but so is exploring other forms of job creation

Experts say unless the implementation is monitored properly at the ground level, much of the easing out could just remain on paper

Would we in the upper class place ourselves in the hands of the government in times such as these? And if not, why do we expect that the poor would? The Indian state is weak and lacks capacity

They said all the funds will be transferred directly into the beneficiaries' bank accounts