New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Office on Friday tweeted that growth must be inclusive and must benefit the poor, especially in rural areas. It further tweeted that wages given under MGNREGA per day have almost doubled since the launch of the scheme.
"Every fifth rural household in India benefits from Mahatma Gandhi NREGA scheme," another tweet said.
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act aims at enhancing the livelihood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of wage-employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
Earlier, CNN-IBN had accessed Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report which said only 30 per cent of 129 lakh works worth over Rs 1.26 lakh crore approved in 14 states were completed. Barely 30 per cent of NREGA works completed, while Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh used only 20 per cent of funds. Rural households' work is down from to 43 per cent from 54 per cent, according to the report....
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09:16 AM, May 24, 2013
Bhopal: Serious irregularities like non-submission of utilisation certificates and delay in payment of wages to beneficiaries among others have come to notice in an official report on the implementation of MGNREGA scheme in Madhya Pradesh. It was also found that the state government was not following necessary budgetary procedures while seeking grant from the Centre under the flagship programme. It was noticed during the inspection in eight districts that the...
03:15 PM, May 19, 2013
Yavatmal: Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has ordered the Maharashtra Government to file an affidavit on a PIL which alleges corruption committed in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Agency (MGNREGA) scheme in the district in 2011-12. The division bench of Justice Bhushan Dharmadhikari and Justice AB Chaudhari on Friday ordered the government to file an affidavit on the PIL by July 22, 2013. The PIL was filed...
02:05 AM, May 07, 2013
The railway ministry has asked the rural development ministry to bring its projects in far-off and rural areas under the rural job guarantee scheme. ...
12:49 AM, Feb 13, 2013
After including persons with 75 per cent disability in the subsidised Rice for Differently Abled Persons (RDP) scheme, Odisha government has decided to provide jobs to them under MGNREGA and NRLM programmes. This has been resolved at a high level meeting chaired by Chief Secretary BK Patnaik, official sources said on February 5. ...
01:50 PM, Feb 05, 2013
The MGNREGA programme in Bihar has run into a controversy. A survey conducted by an NGO shows that nearly 75 per cent of funds have been allegedly siphoned off by local officials. In some cases, money was allegedly withdrawn in the names of people, who only even exist. ...
10:37 AM, Nov 28, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday announced various relief measures for drought-hit areas of the country that includes increasing the number of guaranteed work days under MGNREGA to 150 days from 100 days and reducing interest rates on rescheduled crop loans to 7 per cent for this fiscal. Announcing these measures, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said the government expects fall in production of coarse cereals and pulses in Kharif (summer)...
07:36 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Dhanbad: Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday called for scrapping MGNREGA-type programmes for better fiscal management. "Besides corruption, programmes like MGNREGA have been affecting the country's economic growth. Such programmes should be scrapped immediately," Swamy said. The government should also initiate efforts in bringing back "black money" stashed in foreign banks to put the economy back on the growth track, he said. Swamy came Dhanbad to take part in...
03:31 AM, Jun 06, 2012
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
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
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
New Delhi: Impressed with the functioning of Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and rural road construction schemes in the country, Mexico has said it will model its own welfare programmes for poor on these initiatives. "I came to know about the successful run of MGNREGA and rural roads construction programmes in India. Mexico will take help of these schemes to draw its own programme for uplift of...
11:06 AM, Sep 25, 2011
