"mgnrega"

Cotton farmers across Telangana are facing severe losses due to unseasonal rains, pest infestations, and procurement hurdles. With yields dropping and moisture levels high, CCI has reduced quotas, forcing farmers into distress sales below MSP. Protests have erupted, and many farmers are turning to daily wage work under MGNREGA as debts mount.

With local body polls nearing, Telangana’s PRRD department is struggling to fund road repairs and rural works despite drawing up projects worth Rs.374 crore. Panchayat Secretaries face hardships ahead of Dasara, while the ambitious Rs.2,199 crore Panula Jathara faces uncertainty

In a letter on Thursday, CM Stalin urged party members to mobilise MGNREGA beneficiaries for the protest, which will take place at two locations in every union across the state.

The workers had to be paid 20 per cent, 25 per cent and 30 per cent summer allowance during March, April and May months respectively. However, no additional payment is being done to the workers

The Telangana government's meagre Rs 600 crore allocation for the Indiramma Aathmeeya Bharosa scheme in the 2025-26 budget has raised serious questions about the Congress' commitment to welfare programmes

As India marches towards Viksit Bharat, well-being of rural population must be at the forefront

Irrespective of political affiliations, leaders of all political parties, farmers, agriculture and MGNREGA labourers and others participated in the protest.

Addressing his first election meeting in the constituency after his nomination, Gandhi said he was contesting the Lok Sabha election from the seat because his family has deep links with the people here.

Led by NRSC Scientists Boorla Anil Kumar and Joshi Chowdary, the team ventured into rural heartlands to analyze the tangible changes and evaluate the program's influence on local communities

A World Bank report released in 2022 points out that the youth unemployment rate in India was at 23.22 per cent, which was higher than its neighbours Pakistan (11.3 per cent) and Bangladesh (12.9 per cent).

The BJP had seized upon the findings of the CAG report on Wednesday, alleging a staggering "mother of all scams" totalling approximately Rs 2 lakh crore in the Trinamool Congress-governed state.

In a written response to a question this week, Minister of State for Rural Development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti shared data on fake job cards.

Meanwhile, the Governor, C.V. Ananda Bose, who is currently in Darjeeling in north Bengal, now has decided to cut-short his tour there and return to Kolkata on Sunday afternoon only.

Banerjee, who along with other TMC leaders, is holding an indefinite sit-in outside Raj Bhavan here since Thursday, has said they will continue the demonstration till Governor CV Ananda Bose meets the protesters.

The indefinite sit-in demonstration outside Raj Bhavan by TMC activists led by senior leader Abhishek Banerjee entered the third day

Congress on Saturday once again took a swipe at BJP accusing it of forced digitalisation in the name of transparency

The economic crisis in rural India is so deep that in September the demand for MGNREGA has increased by 30pc in 4 years, said Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge in a post on X

TMC) on Thursday staged a protest in Kolkata against the central government on this issue

He skipped the ED summons which asked him to appear on Tuesday in Kolkata in connection with the schoolteachers' recruitment case.

TMC MPs and state ministers will peacefully sit in at Rajghat on October 2, followed by a peaceful rally of MGNREGA job card holders in the national capital