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A woman labourer of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme died of a suspected sunstroke while she was working at Sankaram village

All the injured workers were provided treatment in the local primary health centre in Jagtial

The Niti Aayog, in its report, stated that the development of the Yadadri model of plantation was a good example of convergence of the Rural Development department and the Forest department

Sangham leader also demanded the Centre to allocate Rs 2 lakh crore annually in the budget for Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

The women while returning from their workplace, stepped into the tank to wash their hands and legs but they failed to gauge the depth and went too far and drowned

Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao posted a card in the postbox at Mohammadapuram village in Duggondi mandal in the district

The Centre’s top-down technical solutions to make the scheme effective are, in fact, becoming a hurdle in tribal areas

She pointed out that union government did not create any new employment opportunities in rural areas and was not implementing existing schemes like MGNREGS

The overall allocations to the agriculture sector have been reduced from Rs 2.25 lakh in 2022-23 to Rs 1.75 lakh crore in 2023-24, marking a reduction by around Rs 50,000 crore

The fund deficiency that Telangana will be forced to tackle in 2023-24 due to this is expected to be of around Rs 35,000 crore to Rs 40,000 crore

A new diktat from the union government is now threatening to affect the very implementation of works under the scheme in the State.

The party leaders and workers staged protest demonstrations in a big way in Karimnagar, Jagtial, Peddapalli, and Rajanna-Sircilla districts.

The dharna sites reverberated with the slogans against Narendra Modi government for trying to create hurdles to the implementation of welfare schemes and halt the development of the state.

Farmers were protesting against the Centre’s attitude over release of funds to the NREGS to Telangana

She said the BJP was trying to restrict CM KCR from strengthening politically in other States with these kinds of actions.

BRS working president KTR called on the party cadre to stage demonstrations in all district headquarters across the State, opposing the Centre's allegations on diversion of MGNREGS funds in Telangana

Hyderabad: The Central government’s discrimination against Telangana is a glaring issue even in permitting additional days of work for drought and natural calamity-affected States under MGNREGS in the last five years. Telangana recorded extremely heavy rainfall in 2020 and 2021, and many mandals are vulnerable to heat waves. In 2019, the Panchayatraj and Rural Development […]

Hyderabad: The TRS on Monday accused the BJP government at the Centre of obstructing the growth of the IT sector in Telangana. The TRS MPs in Delhi stated that the Centre denied the Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) project promised to the State in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act and dented the growth of the […]

Hyderabad: In yet another action that could dent rural employment in Telangana, the Central government raised objections to the works taken up by the Telangana government under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for the benefit of farmers. Further, the Centre decided to deploy more Central teams to conduct a thorough scrutiny […]

By Dr Sonal Mobar Roy Catering to the needs of millions of people in the country, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Scheme (MGNREGS) is one of India’s flagship social protection programmes. It is the largest labour guarantee scheme in the world, offering 100 days of paid labour to every rural household. The origin […]