MGNREGA
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Low Wages, Lockdown Lead West Bengal Tea Garden Workers to Protest
Tea garden workers, who migrated to cities in search of better opportunities, have returned to their villages in tea gardens of North Bengal and have very little work.
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Video Volunteers Correspondent Facilitates Job Cards for Uttar Pradesh MNREGA Workers
VV correspondent Anil Kumar intervened to facilitate MNREGA job cards for villagers in Uttar Pradesh
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Fixing India: MNREGA Payments Received
In the 5th episode, we are resolving issues under MNREGA scheme.
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Gaya’s Village of Migrant Workers
Out of the 132 families in this Bihar village, at least hundred have seen their younger members migrate in search of work, but not necessarily a better life.
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Flood-Affected Farmers Fight for Entitled MNREGA Benefits
While floods in Bihar get some media attention, the effects on the agrarian community are far reaching and need sustainable solutions rather than immediate relief packages.
NREGA- The failing lifeline of Rural Employment
“Give us work and we will work”. “They give the work to contractors and we all just sit here.” “I have worked for 27-28 days but haven’t yet received my wages.” “If we have received NREGA wages on time, we could have gotten the treatment.” NREGA has been the world’s...
Impact: 250 MGNREGA workers get paid after 18 months
Ratna Roy, a labourer from West Bengal had toiled hard under the rural employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA to earn her promised daily bread. But her efforts were in vain as the administration of Cooch Behar, West Bengal did not pay her wages for one and a half years. Just like Ratna...