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During her recent address, Union Minister Raksha Khadse praised the strides made in enhancing rural sports infrastructure in Bihar through MGNREGA initiatives. She unveiled the Centre's ambitious vision to expand this successful model across the nation with the launch of the VB-G RAM G scheme.

Bihar's rural development department is launching a comprehensive social audit of all MGNREGA projects at the panchayat level. With central funding secured, district-level societies will conduct third-party assessments to ensure transparency, curb corruption, and verify that funds are effectively utilized for rural infrastructure and livelihood projects, benefiting the intended recipients.

The zilla parishad (ZP) has decided to construct roads for private industries in rural areas through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). For this, it has asked the gram panchayat to allow the Maharashtra Industries Development Corporation (MIDC) to collect property tax from industries as per a government resolution (GR) in this regard.

Not a single transaction has been processed by the banks/PFMS (public financial management system) for payment of wages to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) workers in Rajasthan in this financial year, an MIS report has revealed.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is a government program that provides a guaranteed wage for rural workers. In 2018, the average wage rate per day per person in Rajasthan was Rs. 18,262.

Government schools in rural areas in the district are now being turned into model schools. The schools are looking colourful and grabbing the attention of villagers.

Over 12,000 contractual MGNREGA employees, who were on strike for the last two months for regularization of service, on Saturday resigned en masse.The move came after services of 21 assistant project officers (APOs) of MGNREGA were terminated by the state government on Friday.

Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh said that the onus of taking action for alleged misappropriation of funds in schemes like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana lies with the state governments.

Nigadi gram panchayat has bagged the Jal Sanjivani Puraskar for making the best action plan for water conservation under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The development work is being carried out on 380 acres of land.

Jaipur expresses disappointment with the Union Budget Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, on Wednesday, saying that reducing the provision for schemes such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act proves it is anti-poor. The budget only makes headline-making jumlas' (speeches) about agriculture and farmers' welfare, while schemes like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which proved to be a lifeline for poor people in the Corona period, receive a much lower provision in the budget. This, Jaipur claims, proves the budget is anti-poor, landless farmers, and common people. Many fake announcements related to agriculture and farmers' welfare have been made in the budget, but the allocation to the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare is about 6 Rs 7500 crore lower than last year. Gehlot also accuses the Centre of neglecting important areas such as education, health, social justice, and women and child development in the budget. The new income tax slab is also a gimmick, not giving the status of a national project to the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project, which is a longstanding demand of the people of the state.

With just 65,059 families having completed 100 days of work under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Rajasthan so far, the average days of employment provided per household is 37.84 (till October 23, 2022), according to MGNREGA MIS report.