Women in Barmer Find Rural Employment Scheme Helping in New Ways
There is a widespread feeling in the villages of India that when the national rural employment guarantee scheme is implemented properly as per the provisions of its law called NREGA,…
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Demand for MG-NREGA work growing, additional budget needed
The coordinator of Mahila Sangathan (women’s organization) in Barmer district, Anita Soni, said recently that there is increasing demand for employment under the rural employment guarantee scheme known popularly as…
NREGA Workers Meet MoRD Secretary Shailesh Kumar; Conclude two-day Protest with Tribute to Babsaheb Ambedkar
Under the banner of the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, hundreds of NREGA workers from across India staged a two-day protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi against the “anti-worker, anti-poor” government led…
NREGA Workers Expose Rural Development Minister’s False Claims in Parliament; Announce Protest at Jantar Mantar on 5-6 December
NREGA workers - under the banner of the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha - held a press conference today at the Press Club of India to expose the inadequacy of budgetary allocations…
Ground-level surveys show how the Aadhar-Based Payment System (ABPS) has excluded crores of MGNREGA workers from employment
ToSmt NirmalaSitharamanUnion Finance Minister Dear Smt Sitharaman, More than a year ago, in my letter of 3rd July 2023, I cautioned your Ministry on last-mile glitches, largely attributable to beneficiary…
Barmer Women Workers’ Struggle Reflects Wider Woes of Rural Employment Scheme Workers
India is among very few developing countries to have a rural employment guarantee scheme. Apart from providing employment during the lean farm work season, this scheme can make a big…
NREGA Workers Say They Will Vote for the Ones Who Will Revive NREGA
Ranchi: Over 200 workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) gathered in a powerful protest outside Raj Bhawan today, condemning the relentless assaults on their rights…
Thousands of NREGA Workers Write to PM Modi to Restart Work in West Bengal,Workers Send One Rupee Each Towards State NREGA Budget!
In a powerful show of solidarity, over 4700 NREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005) workers from across India have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging the…
Unsafe working conditions in MGNREGA
A death due to sunstroke and a snake bite were reported this week in Telangana Introduction: The country continues to witness horrible incidents happening to MGNREGA workers. MNREGA is a…
Modi government wants to kill NREGA: Jairam Ramesh
NREGA Sangharsh Morcha and Jharkhand NREGA Watch jointly organised National Jan Sunwai (Public Hearing) on National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and Public Dialogue with Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra on…
Immediately disburse wages pending for two years to NREGA workers in West Bengal
To, The Secretary, The Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, Krishi Bhavan,Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi -110001 Sub: Seeking Immediate disbursal of wages pending since two years to…
Manikpur-NREGA Workers Denied Wages in Remote Villages
Sukhrani is a koladivasi woman in Sakrauhan village of Manikpur block in Chitrakut district (Uttar Pradesh). She toiled at a NREGA ( rural employment guarantee scheme)work site for 21 days.…
MGNREGA Workers wage protest against National Mobile Monitoring Software
Hundreds of workers engulfing vast areas of the country are valiantly protesting at Delhi's Jantar Mantar against the establishment of digital presence to monitor MGNREGA workers. The workers state that…
Why Government Clarification on NREGA Budget Cut is Not Convincing
If a single aspect of the union budget 2023-24 is to be selected in the context of drawing the maximum criticism, then it is the very low allocation for NREGA.…
Grossly Inadequate Budget Allocation for NREGA in FY 2023-24
Post-Budget Statement by Peoples' Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG) and NREGA Sangharsh Morcha (NSM) The allocation for NREGA announced in the budget for FY 2023-24 is a travesty and is…
One year of Injustice: One year of NREGA workers wage theft in West Bengal
Centre withheld over 7,500 cr funds, 2,744 cr due to NREGA workers Centre hasn’t sanctioned labour budget for 2022-23 Loss of around 4687-6842 crores of NREGA wages this FY due…
Right to Food Campaign demands proper functioning of MGNREGA
The Right to Food Campaign stands in solidarity with the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha’s national call for action across the country to revive the proper functioning of MGNREGA. The Right to…
Why NREGA Implementation Problems Are Increasing
While the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ( MG-NREGA or simply NREGA)has certainly provided an important means of improving rural livelihood prospects, it is increasingly clear that its…
Campaign demanding pending wages of NREGA workers
The disastrous condition of the most marginal rural workers who work in the 100 days work programme (MGNREGA) is now a burning issue in West Bengal. For more than six…
Long Delays in NREGA Wage Payments in Himachal
Recent reports indicate increasing problems in the implementation of MG-NREGA in Himachal Pradesh, the most disturbing aspect being the long delays in the payments of workers. A front page, top…
Himachal Workers Demand Delayed NREGA Wages
Himachal Pradesh has been experiencing several adversities in recent times including erratic weather conditions. The year 2021 started with a prolonged drought spell and unseasonal, widespread forest fires. After this…
Implementation Problems of Rural Employment Law Increase Distress of Rural Poor in India
A law enacted by the previous UPA Government in India to provide rural employment guarantee proved to be a significant help in reducing the aggravated distress of the rural poor…
Grant 50 additional work days: NREGA Sangharsh Morcha
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act currently offers 100 days of work to all rural households. Given the crisis in the economy and the slowdown of economic activity…
Increase in NREGA wages once again extremely paltry
The increase in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) wage rates for 2021-22 is extremely paltry (see the table). There is no increase in Kerala’s NREGA wage rate. Rajasthan’s…
The Strenuous Activism Behind MGNREGA – In Conversation With Ashish Ranjan
MGNREGA has been a controversial scheme, politically, since its inception in the year 2006. Some politicians has referred to it as a means for menial jobs to poor, while some…
When Minimum is interpreted as Maximum
Co-Written by Anurag Singh and Sandeep Pandey Atma-nirbhar (self-reliant) India must perform on several fronts in order to vindicate itself on its adopted path in the current economic crisis coupled…
NREGA workers across the country demand 200 days of employment
Demand Rs 600 as daily wages and strict implementation of locally planned works Today, workers in over sixty districts across eleven states of the country observed “NREGA Adhikar Diwas” by…
Non-ending of miseries of workers
The miseries of the workers relating to Covid19 is unending one. Few weeks before we had condemned the reform of labor laws, initiated by the Union Government and subsequently followed…
The MGNREGA Slowdown
MGNREGA( Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) this year has almost come to a standstill. While the nation is debating the economic slowdown and falling demand in the rural…
NREGA: An Answer to the Economic Slowdown
The cover has finally blown. The shadow of a slowing economy has caught up as the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) recently declared an overall unemployment rate of 6.1% in…
BJP Ignores MGNREGA
Strengthening MGNREGA is important to alleviate rural distress The election manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party has been recently announced and MGNREGA has been completely ignored in the manifesto. While…
Jharkhand’s poor show in MGNREGA continue
The Government of India’s official website shows that Jharkhand has failed terribly in MGNREGA implementation in 2018-19 while the country has seen a steady increase in work demands under…
Government’s surgical strike on the MGNREGA workers continue- The Telangana Tragedy is a failure of the system
Official apathy and the failure of the governments to provide basic facilities like shades and administration’s negligence in ensuring adequate security measures at the work sites for the labourers, responsible…
Modi government’s surgical strike on NREGA workers’ wages continues
The wage rates for NREGA workers for 2019-20, notified yesterday, have again exposed central government’s lack of commitment for NREGA workers’ rights. The hike ranges from a meagre Re 1…
Demand for raising MGNREGA wages to Rs.600
To, Shri Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India Dear Prime Minister, NREGA has been a lifeline for the poor, with one in every three rural households working in it. About…
The MGNREGA fund puzzle- Why the workers are angry?
As the month of march progresses, there is great pressure from the administration to intensify the works but does the government have money to make timely payments to the workers?…
The Crisis of MGNREGA
The Central Government has forgotten that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee ACT is an employment generation programme and not merely a rural asset generation scheme. The idea of…
A Sahayata Kendra for Accountable Governance
The MNREGA Sahayata Kendras of Jharkhand have been working on strengthening the demand side of the grievance redress mechanism since their inception. The idea of a sahayata kendra led community…
Slow Death of MNREGA
The Ministry of Rural Development is restricting MNREGA from attaining it’s full potential and at the same time dictating it’s implementation by not honoring local knowledge and decision making. As…
Crisis For NREGA
In its recent press release the NREGA Sangrash Morcha brought in several important issues which we need to reflect upon for the efficient implementation of one of the world’s biggest…
NREGA Workers of Jharkhand Demand Their Rights
Close to 1,000 NREGA workers and other rural labourers converged to Birsa Chowk from 12 districts of Jharkhand today and sat on dharna to protest against repeated attacks on their…
NREGA Sangharsh Morcha Condemns The Police Crackdown On Sanjay Sahni And others
NREGA Sangharsh Morcha strongly condemns the arrest of Sanjay Sahni in Muzaffarpur, Bihar on 21 August and the police lathi charge on other members on Samaj Parivartan Shakti Sanghathan (SPSS)…
Paper Claims
As someone who has cut one’s teeth working on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) before working on social accountability practices, I read with interest Nayanika…
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