Deputy Chief Minister, K S Eshwarappa's decision to clear pending bills amounting to Rs 130 crore under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) for 2009-10 in Gulbarga

The government has asked banks to focus on 'Urban Financial Inclusion' to ensure at least one bank account per family among poor in cities.

The directive comes at a time when the government has been

Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Tuesday announced the establishment of Social Audit Society of Tamil Nadu to monitor the disbursal of wages to workers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rura

A 65-year-old Right to Information (RTI) activist who was working to expose irregularities in the rural jobs scheme MGNREGA in Rajasthan is battling for life at a hospital here after being attacked by

Pitching for immediate reforms in the Centre's flagship rural job scheme MGNREGA, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said the complaints of corruption and irregularities regarding the sche

Accusing Mayawati government of not taking adequate action against those allegedly involved in embezzling MGNREGA funds, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has dared the UP chief minister to recommend a CBI probe into its implementation if she had nothing to hide.

Impressed with the functioning of MGNREGA and rural road construction schemes in the country, Mexico has said it would model its own welfare programmes for poor on these initiatives.

"I came to know

Rural development minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Wednesday said money allocated for the government’s flagship MGNREGA programme was being “siphoned off” and warned that CBI probe would have to be ordered wherever such allegations are noticed.