Ranchi: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said about Rs 1,200 crore could be alloted to include toilet system in a revamped MGNREGA. "I am going to announce in Parliament on large scale expansion in the work schedule of MGNREGA by May 8. (Planning Commission member) Mihir Shah-headed expert committee recommendations are accepted (in this regard)," Ramesh said at a press conference. "One of the important additions is...
12:36 AM, May 01, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state has scored high in the performance graph of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in 2011-12 by notching up a remarkable feat of providing 44.96 days of work for target families, as against the national average of 39.95. Likewise, if the number of work days provided to women under the scheme at the national level was 48.71 per cent out of the total days, it...
11:34 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Chandigarh: On the lines of MNREGA, the UPA government is considering a scheme for urban areas, Union Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Saturday said. "The main problem that the country today is facing is un-employment and like MNREGA, same scheme is likely to be started in urban areas also," said Bansal, union parliamentary affairs minister. The UPA Government has started the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee programme with a...
01:50 AM, Apr 15, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to demand smooth transfer of funds for various central schemes like MNREGA, supply of coal and improving infrastructure and was assured of all "due" help for development of the state. In his first formal meeting with the Prime Minister since taking over as Chief Minister, Yadav, accompanied by senior officials and ministers, discussed his policies...
12:55 AM, Apr 15, 2012
Allahabad: Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on Friday said he will ask Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to order a CBI inquiry into irregularities in the implementation of MNREGA in the state during Mayawati rule. "Large-scale irregularities in the implementation of MNREGA had come to our notice in districts like Balrampur, Mahoba and Sonebhadra a few years ago." "I wrote to the then Chief Minister Mayawati many...
04:32 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Jaipur: After setting an example in effective implementation of the MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act), Congress-ruled Rajasthan is where the UPA government's flagship programme is now virtually dying. With the expenditure on MNREGA in Rajasthan shrinking this year to almost one-third of its spending in 2006, the activists say the Congress government is now developing cold feet in executing its own programme. In 2008-09 the expenditure on...
07:01 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Jammu: CPI(M) in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday asked the state government to lay more emphasis on restructuring of rural development sector in the planning process. Participating in the debate on demands for grants for the departments of Rural Development, Law and Parliamentary Affairs, CPI(M) state Secretary Mohd Yousuf Tarigami said restructuring the rural economy was imperative for socio-economic emancipation of the masses in the state. He demanded MGNREGA be...
12:29 AM, Mar 14, 2012
Patna: Describing funds under the central flagship programme Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Act (MNREGA) as a 'flexi fund', Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said the states were free to use the scheme for all rural works. "The MNGERA is a flexi fund that can be used by the states for all types of rural development works," he said at the release of a book 'Leveraging MNREGA...
05:27 AM, Mar 01, 2012
From a man in Kashmir who fought for opening a dispensary in his village to a woman who fought for the full payment of her wages under the NREGA scheme, 2011 saw citizens taking up the nation's corrupt by its jugular and fighting for their rights. ...
08:31 PM, Feb 19, 2012
Jaipur: On February 2, even as Sonia Gandhi was speaking out against corruption in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, a 65-year-old RTI applicant from Bikaner in Rajasthan was brutally attacked after he tried to expose corruption in the MNREGA work. The ex-Sarpanch was allegedly beaten up by supporters of the current Sarpanch. Dudhram had complained to the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) about the allocation of Rs 4 crore...
06:59 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Murshidabad: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said the central government had taken up a lot of welfare projects, but many people remained unaware of them and their benefits. Citing the MGNREGA programme as an instance, he said over last few years, the Centre had undertaken a number of projects like it. "Over the last few years we have taken up a number of projects like MGNREGA. But many...
11:47 PM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: Pitching for immediate reforms in the Centre's flagship rural job scheme MGNREGA, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said the complaints of corruption and irregularities regarding the scheme cannot be ignored. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Gandhi also expressed concern over delay in wage payment to MGNREGA workers, emphasising the need to ensure that they get it within 15 days. "Talks about reform in MGNREGA are taking place...
01:57 PM, Feb 02, 2012
Allahabad: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government for "large-scale irregularities" in implementation of the MNREGA scheme and failure to order an investigation despite repeated communications to Chief Minister Mayawati. "Thousands of crores of rupees have been given to Uttar Pradesh by the UPA government at the Centre in the past five years for MNREGA. There have been reports of large-scale irregularities in implementation...
06:38 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Minimum Wage. Fair Wage. Living Wage "Minimum wage" is different from "fair wage". "Minimum wage" and "Fair wage" are different from "Living ...
07:33 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre on Monday filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Karnataka High Court order on minimum wages in National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The Centre told the Supreme Court that if the Karnataka High Court judgment is not set aside it will impose a burden of Rs 7,500 crore on the Government and cites lack of fund. The Karnataka government has fixed a minimum wage...
01:48 PM, Jan 23, 2012
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