Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
BHUBANESWAR: Opposition members on Wednesday staged a walkout demanding extension of the CBI probe into large-scale irregularities in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) to all the 30 districts. The issue cropped up during discussion on the admissibility of an adjournment motion notice given by …
The World Bank has urged the Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) to conduct rigorous planning to qualify for a possible third phase of its support. “It is time to begin thinking about how PAF III would look like,” said Taseen Sayed, the World Bank’s Country Manager for Nepal, during an interaction …
The Planning Commission will constitute an expert group in three months to revisit the methodology for estimating poverty amid demand for removal of its Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia for pegging the poverty line at Rs 28.65 daily per capita consumption for cities and Rs 22.42 in rural areas. “The …
The Annual Plan for Rajasthan for 2012-13 was on Wednesday finalised at Rs.33,500 crore at a meeting here between Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. “We have agreed on annual Plan size of Rs.33,500 crore for the next fiscal which is well funded by …
New Delhi, 20 March: The government today said close to 70 per cent of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) are used for water conservation and land development. “Close to 70 per cent of the expenditure under the MGNREGS has been on water conservation and …
Villages see a big drop as number of poor falls from 37% to 30% in 5 yrs The number of India’s poor fell to 29.8% of its population in 2009-10 from 37.2% in 2004-05, one of the sharpest falls ever. This suggests India has not only grown faster than the …
For the UPA Government which kept accusing Mayawati’s BSP of ignoring its flagship programmes in Uttar Pradesh, the latest Economic Survey has some food for thought. It shows that the percentage of households provided employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was the highest in Uttar Pradesh …
Hitting at UPA’s biggest flagship scheme Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Agriculture Ministry has criticised the scheme in it’s first ever Agriculture Survey saying that MGNREGA has led to double digit growth in wages annually in the last few years even exceeding the rate of inflation that …
In every region of the developing world, the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 a day and the number of poor declined between 2005-2008, according to estimates released on Wednesday by the World Bank. This across-the-board reduction over a three-year monitoring cycle marks a first since the Bank …
SHILLONG: The state government has today said that the proposed Integrated Basin Development would eradicate poverty by the year 2020 if implemented in the 12th 5-year plan, beside other benefit like creating a multiplier effect in the rural economy. Expected outcome from this proposed integrated basin also include the entrepreneurial …
The Supreme Court has reiterated the Karnataka High Court order, directing the Centre to pay the minimum daily wage rate applicable in Karnataka to labourers employed in the state under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The Centre had fixed the wage rate for agricultural workers in …
In a landmark decision, the Union rural development minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh, today announced that the flagship scheme MG-NREGA would be made more agriculture focused. “At least 28 new work lists out of 30 suggested by the Planning Commission member Mihir Shah committee is agriculture based. We will have the …
The government may soon have to shell out an Unemployment Allowance if it fails to provide jobs to wage seekers under the flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). “The MGNREGA software will automatically generate the pay order for payment of unemployment allowance to the wage seekers, whose …
The targeted public distribution system, intended to provide subsidised food to poor households, is the largest welfare programme in India, with a budget corresponding to about 1% of the net national product. Several studies have found the system to be inefficient and costly in assisting the poor. This paper analyses …
Research by ISB says scheme has short-term impact on poverty. High agricultural wages due to the success of government’s flagship employment guarantee programme has hindered the development of micro enterprises in the hinterlands, says a research paper by Indian School of Business (ISB). The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee …
Bhubaneswar: The CBI has placed before the Supreme Court its report on the investigation into alleged corruption in utilisation of Central funds by six districts of Odisha for the rural job guarantee scheme under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme. The report in a sealed cover was …
Poverty in Nigeria is rising with almost 100 million people living on less than $1 a day, despite strong growth in Africa's second largest economy, data showed on Monday. The percentage of Nigerians living in absolute poverty - those who can afford only the bare essentials of food, shelter and …
This analysis examines what the ubiquitous presence of political “brokers” who mediate many people’s access to state institutions reveals about the Indian state and the complex causes of corruption in Indian public life. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Bihar since 2002, it reveals the role of brokers within both …
Prompt payment through bank; corruption eliminated; in fact, some workers have a saving. They are all manual workers earning Rs. 100 daily under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and some of them have a bank balance — no matter how small — made possible because of their …
Madhya Pradesh stands fourth in the country in the implementation of MNREGA. So far, Rs. 17,730 cr have been spent on basic development works and village uplift in the state under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. More than 9.78 lakh works have been undertaken and employment worth 132 …
