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The lull before the storm

Starvation deaths post-Covid are likely to gallop in India's most vulnerable states unless the Centre steps in

MGNREGA stares at a tough challenge ahead as labourers return to villages

Significantly expanding the budget for the rural employment guarantee scheme is vital, but so is exploring other forms of job creation

Seeds of trouble

Labour shortage puts record rabi harvest at risk

Selective opening not enough

Govt's silence on economic package is surprising

Centre allows industry, road work and MGNREGA to start in rural India

Experts say unless the implementation is monitored properly at the ground level, much of the easing out could just remain on paper

Corona complexity

Set economic growth aside, intensify redistribution

It is imperative for us to rise above partisan interests: Sonia Gandhi

Following is Sonia Gandhi's letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Virulent times for the faceless millions, now on the road to uncertainty

Would we in the upper class place ourselves in the hands of the government in times such as these? And if not, why do we expect that the poor would? The Indian state is weak and lacks capacity

Uttar Pradesh govt plans to bring out a booklet to highlight achievements

One even went to the extent of suggesting the title "Uttar Pradesh bana hatya pradesh (Uttar Pradesh becomes a land of murders)".

FM Nirmala Sitharaman's second Budget is falling short of expectation

The government should have increased allocations to the MGNREGA, PM-KISAN and rural infrastructure to raise incomes in rural areas

Economists prefer capex route to boost demand amid economic slowdown

Though MGNREGA and PM-Kisan have clear rural focus, they think excess public spending should only be on capex

MGNREGS wages to go up? Scheme likely to get Rs 10,000-cr push

To boost rural income, the government could raise the total MGNREGA Budget for 2020-21 to Rs 70,000 crore. In 2019-20 (FY20), it was Rs 60,000 crore

States likely to step up borrowing in 4th quarter for social expenditures

Almost all states have raised much more debt than at the same time last year, except Maharashtra.

Govt may divert unspent funds allocated for PM-KISAN scheme to MGNREGA

This is to push liquidity into rural hands to kick-start consumption cycle

Job crisis signal

Young people opting for MGNREGA work is worrying

Budget: Odisha CM vexed at cut in outlay for MGNREGA, national highways

Says cutback in funds will adversely affect inter-state connectivity, hails enhanced allocation for rail projects

Rural job scheme to pump Rs 15,000 crore into 'Jal Shakti Abhiyan'

The flagship rural development scheme has drawn up a detailed plan of over 200,000 works to be taken up for water conservation in nearly 1,100 water-stressed districts

250 lawmakers, activists write to Modi, say MGNREGA fund crunch 'alarming'

Lawmakers and the activists say MGNREGA fund crunch comes when there is distress across rural India.

States seek more funds for MGNREGA as work demand shoots up due to drought

Many don't buy the Centre's claim that fund flows to the scheme for wage payments have smoothened

CM's panel may favour using MGNREGA for farmland fencing but for a village

The panel is chaired by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan