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Larger lesson in welfare dispute

Preserving the Centre-state equilibrium is essential to keep MGNREGS going

The funding-implementation asymmetry in centrally sponsored schemes (CSSs) — the Union government provide the funds and state governments implement them — is always a delicate equilibrium which can be destabilised easily (ANI)

editorials

Updated on Mar 31, 2025 07:29 PM IST

ByHT Editorial

Shivraj Singh Chouhan slams Congress for ‘spreading lies’ on MNREGA

Chouhan said MGNREGA had seen effective implementation and an increase in budget allocation under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan speaking in the Lok Sabha during the Budget Session (Sansad TV/FILE PHOTO)

india news

Published on Mar 19, 2025 09:56 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Belagavi officer attacked for refusing to provide papers in Marathi: Police

Kodli, who sustained serious injuries to his head and legs, is currently undergoing treatment at the Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences

Police said that the attackers are currently absconding. (Representational image)

india news

Published on Mar 12, 2025 08:08 AM IST

ByHirekop Rajan Samuel

Terms of Trade: Are freebies also serving a macroeconomic cause?

Instead of being a drain on growth-enhancing resources, freebies might be serving a useful macroeconomic purpose in the short-term

Women express happiness over the deposit of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>3,000 in their accounts under the Maharashtra Government's Ladki Bahin Yojana on August 16, 2024. (Hindustan Times)

india news

Published on Feb 14, 2025 01:25 PM IST

ByRoshan Kishore

62% of welfare scheme funds not utilised by UTs, states in ’24: Govt

For the first time, the Union budget for 2025-26 contained a new statement that shows fund balance under single nodal agency (SNA) accounts with state and Union territories with respect to select centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) of ₹500 crore and above.

india news

Published on Feb 12, 2025 08:06 AM IST

ByRajeev Jayaswal

Govt panel recommends overhaul of MGNREGS, adjusting wages every 5 years

Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is scheduled to get a briefing from the committee on its recommendations in January.

Women labourers work at a site under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) on the outskirts of Ajmer. (PTI FILE PHOTO)

india news

Updated on Dec 20, 2024 08:31 PM IST

ByAbhishek Angad

MGNREGS demand declines elsewhere, rises in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh

Overall, there has been a decrease in demand for employment under MGNREGS by 23.68 % between 2020-21 and 2023-24 in 34 states and UTs

Collector, Nayagarh visiting various developmental works including farm ponds, amrit sarovar under MGNREGS (X/AdmnNayagarh)

india news

Updated on Dec 10, 2024 10:33 PM IST

ByAbhishek Angad

MGNREGS funds to West Bengal halted over irregularities

The central government has stopped releasing funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to West Bengal after it found large-scale irregularities in executing the flagship programme by the state, two officials aware of the development said on Monday.

Other states have also been alerted to irregularities by the Centre. (HT Photo)

india news

Updated on Jul 30, 2024 03:00 AM IST

ByRajeev Jayaswal, New Delhi

Reeling under drought, Karnataka asks Centre to release pending employment guarantee scheme wages

cities

Published on Oct 17, 2023 01:46 PM IST

ByHT Analytics

TMC MGNREGA protest in Delhi today; ‘denied’ train, supporters reaching on buses

TMC has called for the two-day 'Dilli Cholo: A fight for our rights!' protest to raise chorus for payment of alleged arrears under MGNREGA scheme.

Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee speaks to the media prior to leaving for Delhi to take part in the protest. (ANI Photo)(Saikat Paul)

india news

Published on Oct 02, 2023 06:34 AM IST

ByAniruddha Dhar

Festive bonanza: Kerala to give ₹1,000 as Onam allowance to MGNREGS, AUEGS workers

The state government had earlier announced ₹4,000 as a festival bonus for employees of state sectors, and ₹2,750 as a festival allowance for those who are not entitled to the bonus

An Onam celebration from 2019. (HT File Photo)

cities

Updated on Aug 18, 2023 03:08 PM IST

ByVishnu Varma

MGNREGA wagers paid more in Haryana than Punjab: MP Sanjeev Arora

In her reply, the Union minister stated that the notified wage rates of unskilled workers under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in fiscal year 2023-24 for Haryana is ₹357 and for Punjab is ₹303

Arora took up the matter in Parliament after chief minister Bhagwant Mann had already written a letter to Cente on the issue.

cities

Updated on Jul 27, 2023 11:38 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Ludhiana

TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee threatens dharna in Delhi over MGNREGA funds for Bengal

Abhishek Banerjee said that the party has already started its work on a signature campaign to collect 10 million letters from people across the state

Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee (File Photo)

cities

Updated on Apr 29, 2023 09:01 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Centre revises MGNREGA wage rates; Haryana offers highest

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 wage hikes, which range from <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>7 to <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>26, will come into effect from April 1. (HT File Photo)

business

Published on Mar 26, 2023 03:15 PM IST

PTI | | Posted by Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao

Where the Indian economic story went wrong

The ongoing economic recovery is being driven by a small section of the economy, and led by profits rather than wages. We can hope, on a wing and a prayer, that the government will finally act.

By various estimates, close to 90% of the workforce in India is employed in the unorganised sector and this has been severely impacted(AP)

analysis

Updated on Dec 23, 2020 04:21 PM IST

ByArvind Mayaram

Creating an inclusive welfare architecture

Cover all of India’s poor; and merge welfare programmes under one umbrella scheme

The MGNREGS and PDS proved to be lifelines as central and state governments were able to mobilise the administrative machinery and expand the welfare net, at relative speed(Shutterstock)

columns

Updated on Nov 18, 2020 08:26 PM IST

ByYamini Aiyar

Odisha engineer worked as MGNREGS worker after losing job, rescued

Anant Beria, a qualified civil engineer, comes from a very poor family in Odisha and was forced to work as a labourer after losing his job in Chennai.

Anant Beria and his father Baisakhu Beria were busy digging a canal under the rural jobs guarantee scheme in Odisha.(HT Photo)

india news

Updated on Oct 23, 2020 03:15 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | ByDebabrata Mohanty | Posted by Abhinav Sahay

Unused rural funds hint migrants may be back at work in cities

As millions of migrant workers started returning home after the lockdown was enforced on March 25 amid a jobs crunch in the big cities, the government devised the Rozgar Abhiyan to provide jobs to skilled and unskilled workers.

Migrant workers, who had left during the Covid-19 lockdown to their home state of Uttar Pradesh, returning to Ahmedabad.(File Photo)

india news

Updated on Sep 28, 2020 03:38 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySaubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi

How to reduce food, job insecurity in rural areas

Launch a massive programme to rehabilitate returnee migrants; allocate an additional Rs 50,000 crore for MGNREGS; extend the free ration scheme for six more months; revive and strengthen public systems of service deliver; RBI should give a directive to banks to extend a top-up loan of Rs 10,000 crore to Self-help Groups

Civil defence personnel offer food to migrant workers heading home, Anand Vihar Bus Terminus, Delhi, March 28, 2020(Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)

analysis

Updated on Sep 14, 2020 06:39 PM IST

ByBinoy Acharya, Ved Arya, Pratyaya Jagnannath, and PS Vijayshankar

Design a safety net for poor urban women

Perhaps one way would be to first create a database and consider some form of cash incentive to at least tide them over at a time when the cost of food, medicines and other necessities has gone up.

The devastation wreaked by Covid-19 has hurt people across India in numerous ways. While there has been much talk of safety net schemes and programmes for the rural poor, the same cannot be said for the urban poor.(Satyabrata Tripathy/HT Photo)

columns

Published on Sep 05, 2020 08:00 PM IST

ByLalita Panicker

Rahul Gandhi suggests MGNREGA, NYAY to help poor, then shoots a question

The Congress’ NYAY scheme promises poor households Rs 72,000 a year, no taxes will be raised and the middle class won’t have to bear the brunt of funding this scheme.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses an election campaign rally in Mahendergarh district of Haryana in this file photo. (PTI Photo)(PTI)

india news

Updated on Aug 11, 2020 09:58 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Byhindustantimes.com | Edited by Meenakshi Ray

Covid-19: A dip in women in the workforce is likely | Opinion

The central and state governments and the private sector must come up with innovative solutions to make women a real part of the next phase of the growth story.

Women will then be left to tend the family, and in many cases, the family’s agricultural fields. Here, a concerted effort should be made to give them better tools to deal with agriculture in the form of easy to access loans and technology.(HTPhoto)

columns

Updated on Aug 08, 2020 06:18 PM IST

ByLalita Panicker

New draft rules for transpersons act issued, 30 days for giving suggestions

The draft offers a list of suggested welfare schemes that the government could consider in access to health, education, housing, welfare measures, and economic support for transpersons.

Members and allies of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community take part in Delhi's 12th Queer Pride March from Barakhamba Road to Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on November 24, 2019.(Amal KS/HT PHOTO)

india news

Updated on Jul 15, 2020 02:06 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByDhamini Ratnam

Make jobs the centre of political discourse

Welfare is good. But parties must compete on who creates more jobs

The pandemic has exacerbated the crisis of employment(PTI)

editorials

Published on Jul 02, 2020 08:05 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

The NDA’s false parenthood claim, writes Abhishek Manu Singhvi

The BJP dismissed MGNREGS. If it wants to claim it, it should expand its scope and pay dues

The UPA government conceptualised MGNREGS, Aadhaar, and DBT(ARVIND YADAV/HT)

analysis

Updated on Jun 14, 2020 10:39 PM IST

ByAbhishek Manu Singhvi

A post-Covid-19 social protection architecture for India

Stronger social protection led by an inclusive growth dividend will protect the vulnerable and drive India’s economic recovery

Migrants returning from Rajasthan, Patna, Bihar, May 9, 2020(Santosh Kumar)

analysis

Updated on Jun 11, 2020 12:39 PM IST

ByKarthik Muralidharan

The importance of the MGNREGS

There is an increase in demand. Consider expanding it for agricultural activities

The Centre has done well to hike the allocation of MGNREGS by Rs 40,000 crore, taking the total allocation under the scheme to Rs 1,01,500 crore(ANI)

editorials

Updated on Jun 03, 2020 06:38 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Why the stimulus will boost the Indian economy, writes Hardeep Puri

Even as the government has proactively dealt with the crisis, the Opposition has engaged in baseless criticism

Even though the PM clearly specified that the approach is to be self-reliant by actively participating and leading the global value chains without being self-centred or inward-looking, the Opposition resorted to scaremongering about MNCs being shown the door when the exact opposite is being attempted by the government.(PTI)

analysis

Updated on May 17, 2020 08:15 PM IST

ByHardeep Puri

Indian states are short of money. They need help | Opinion

Changes of the past six years had put their finances in a precarious position. The current measures aren’t enough

Stranded migrant workers queue to collect health certificates, Pune, May 6, 2020(Ravindra Joshi/HTPhoto)

analysis

Updated on May 17, 2020 06:48 PM IST

ByAvani Kapur and Udit Ranjan

The budget does not address the crisis of demand | Opinion

The FM made a good faith attempt to present her vision. But the budget lacked a diagnosis of what is wrong, a prescription to address it, and made baffling choices

The decline in consumption demand, especially in rural India, is a matter of pressing concern. But the budget may have made the problem worse with cuts in allocation. Instead, it should have streamlined public finance management systems and re-prioritised expenditure(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

analysis

Updated on Feb 01, 2020 10:24 PM IST

ByYamini Aiyar

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Preserving the Centre-state equilibrium is essential to keep MGNREGS going

Chouhan said MGNREGA had seen effective implementation and an increase in budget allocation under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Kodli, who sustained serious injuries to his head and legs, is currently undergoing treatment at the Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences

Instead of being a drain on growth-enhancing resources, freebies might be serving a useful macroeconomic purpose in the short-term

For the first time, the Union budget for 2025-26 contained a new statement that shows fund balance under single nodal agency (SNA) accounts with state and Union territories with respect to select centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) of ₹500 crore and above.

Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is scheduled to get a briefing from the committee on its recommendations in January.

Overall, there has been a decrease in demand for employment under MGNREGS by 23.68 % between 2020-21 and 2023-24 in 34 states and UTs

The central government has stopped releasing funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to West Bengal after it found large-scale irregularities in executing the flagship programme by the state, two officials aware of the development said on Monday.

Reeling under drought, Karnataka asks Centre to release pending employment guarantee scheme wages

TMC has called for the two-day 'Dilli Cholo: A fight for our rights!' protest to raise chorus for payment of alleged arrears under MGNREGA scheme.

The state government had earlier announced ₹4,000 as a festival bonus for employees of state sectors, and ₹2,750 as a festival allowance for those who are not entitled to the bonus

In her reply, the Union minister stated that the notified wage rates of unskilled workers under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in fiscal year 2023-24 for Haryana is ₹357 and for Punjab is ₹303

Abhishek Banerjee said that the party has already started its work on a signature campaign to collect 10 million letters from people across the state

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 ongoing economic recovery is being driven by a small section of the economy, and led by profits rather than wages. We can hope, on a wing and a prayer, that the government will finally act.

Cover all of India’s poor; and merge welfare programmes under one umbrella scheme

Anant Beria, a qualified civil engineer, comes from a very poor family in Odisha and was forced to work as a labourer after losing his job in Chennai.

As millions of migrant workers started returning home after the lockdown was enforced on March 25 amid a jobs crunch in the big cities, the government devised the Rozgar Abhiyan to provide jobs to skilled and unskilled workers.

Perhaps one way would be to first create a database and consider some form of cash incentive to at least tide them over at a time when the cost of food, medicines and other necessities has gone up.

The Congress’ NYAY scheme promises poor households Rs 72,000 a year, no taxes will be raised and the middle class won’t have to bear the brunt of funding this scheme.

The central and state governments and the private sector must come up with innovative solutions to make women a real part of the next phase of the growth story.

The draft offers a list of suggested welfare schemes that the government could consider in access to health, education, housing, welfare measures, and economic support for transpersons.

Welfare is good. But parties must compete on who creates more jobs

The BJP dismissed MGNREGS. If it wants to claim it, it should expand its scope and pay dues

Stronger social protection led by an inclusive growth dividend will protect the vulnerable and drive India’s economic recovery

There is an increase in demand. Consider expanding it for agricultural activities

Even as the government has proactively dealt with the crisis, the Opposition has engaged in baseless criticism

Changes of the past six years had put their finances in a precarious position. The current measures aren’t enough

The FM made a good faith attempt to present her vision. But the budget lacked a diagnosis of what is wrong, a prescription to address it, and made baffling choices

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