HP surpasses 275 lakh labour days target under MNREGA in 2023-24: Sukhu
For 2024-25, a target of 300 lakh labour days has been set, of which, 214.51 lakh labour days have already been earned, he said.
For 2024-25, a target of 300 lakh labour days has been set, of which, 214.51 lakh labour days have already been earned, he said.
The Congress chief in a post on X wrote, "In 2005, on this day, our Congress-United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government enacted Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to ensure ‘Right to Work’ to crores of people in rural India.
The maxim ‘truth is stranger than fiction’ plays out daily in our lives. On the one hand, tax collections, Sensex and sales of high-end vehicles are at record levels and people were seen queuing up to buy gold on Dhanteras but on the other, the subsidised ration scheme had to be extended for five years and the extraordinarily large number of people applying for work under MNREGA, resulted in budgeted funds getting exhausted by mid-year.
Giving a political boost to the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee’s ERCP (Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project) Yatra, AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday rhetorically asked if Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be the chief minister of Rajasthan, if voted to power in the upcoming assembly election.
The government further clarified that the ministry has been making all efforts to pay wages on time. The government in its statement claimed that delays in payments are only when the pay orders have not been generated in time.
Even in districts like Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar and Tehri the self employment trend is popular among migrants.
The Finance Minister's package for the migrants announced on June 18 has too much detail in it. When a public works programme is to be executed, too much detailing of the prescribed output is a distraction
He said 100 per cent payments regarding works under MNREGA has been implemented through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) and for worksite facilities homemade protective face cover, soap and water were being provided to MNREGA workers.
Around 328 development works are being carried out in 25 Panchayats of Kalpa block, 399 works in 18 Panchayats of Nichar block and 58 works are being carried out in 20 Panchayats of Pooh development block.
Highlighting her party's efforts to help the poor and the needy, Gandhi mentioned that Congress workers across the country have been persistently making all efforts to provide relief activities adding that the state units of the Congress are taking all necessary measures to send migrants back home without any cost.
