Calls for Khabad to quit grow amid NREGA scam The arrest of Gujarat minister Bhachubhai Khabad’s two sons in a Rs 75-crore ...

Vadodara: After an offence was registered regarding the alleged scam in the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREGA) ...

Vadodara: Four accused person, including the sons of Gujarat minister of state for agriculture and panchayats, Bachu Khabad, ...

Along with Balvantsinh and Kiran, officers such as the then Taluka Development Officer (TDO) of Devgadh Baria were arrested.

The scam tests the BJP's governance model as well as the Centre, which has been acting swiftly on rural welfare frauds in Opposition-ruled states such as West Bengal ...

Economist Sunil Ray, former director of the AN Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna, said dependence on the NREGA would not decline in the years to come since sustainable and dignified income rema ...

Irfan is a Gram Rozgar Sahayak (GRS), or village employment assistant. His job is to help implement one of India's most ...

The most recent concern of the central government is over the programme’s “regressive” spending pattern, where poorer States spend less NREGA funds than better-off ones. As if on cue ...

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) promises a revolutionary demand-driven, people-centred development programme. Planning, implementation and social audit by gram sabhas and gram ...

They said that they were reeling under a severe financial crisis due to inordinate delay in payment of bills with regard to ...

An individual can visit nrega.nic.in to find who will be employed by NREGA in the current fiscal year. An individual can apply for an NREGA job card who meets the criteria set by the administration.

The NREGP is the government’s largest social sector scheme administered by the rural development ministry. Rampant misappropriation of funds allocated under the flagship National Rural ...