People digging a pond near Honna Kiranagi village in Kalaburagi district in Karnataka under MGNREGA. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI The daily wage for workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been revised from ₹349 to ₹370 per person with effect from April 1. Announcing this update on March 31, … Read more
New Delhi: Amid criticism over low rate of hike in MGNREGS wages, sources on Friday said the increase was calculated on the basis of Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labour, which rose by around 7.7 per cent since last year. The Rural Development Ministry had notified new wage rates under the MGNREGS on Wednesday, with … Read more
Separating fact from fiction Now that millions of people have received the vaccines — including more than 3 million who have completed the full two-dose regimen — experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be able to truly sort out real, rare side effects caused by the … Read more