Giriraj Singh

Additional allocations will be sanctioned for the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the finance ministry has assured there will be no shortage, Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh has said, dismissing criticisms of the flagship programme not...

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday organised demonstrations and burnt effigies of Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh across West Bengal in protest against the detention of its national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in Delhi the day before. This development...

Bank accounts of around 1.13 crore workers under the rural job scheme MGNREGA are yet to be seeded with their Aadhaar numbers, Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh informed Lok Sabha on Tuesday. In a written reply to a question in...

Union minister Giriraj Singh on Friday asserted that there was a need for an anti-conversion law that was applicable to the entire country.The firebrand BJP leader, who is also considered a detractor of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, expressed...

There was an environment of “indifference” towards the use of technology in governance before 2014 due to which the poor and the middle class suffered the most, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday.He asserted the current government has...

Noting that India has challenges on food security due to population pressure, Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Giriraj Singh on Wednesday highlighted the need for more food grains with better yield.“The Green Revolution was of immense...

CONGRESS SAYS HE IS IN THE HIMALAYAN NATION FOR FRIEND’S WEDDING A video of Rahul Gandhi went viral on social media on Tuesday triggering a row, with the BJP saying he was at a “nightclub” when his party is “exploding”,...

Union minister Giriraj Singh on Saturday called for bringing in a uniform civil code. The Minister who pointed to moves by Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to bring in a uniform civil code, said it was a step...