Sop season sets in early, NREGA wages to shoot up

The government is looking to make a substantial hike in wages under its flagship employment generation programme, seen as a vote winner that helped UPA return to power in 2009, ahead of general elections next year. The rural development ministry has scrapped a panel headed by National Statistical Commission Chairman Pronab Sen and set up a new one to prepare a fresh index that would lead to more generous wage revisions under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Nrega). 

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