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 …
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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) launched in 2005 is the largest rural employment programme ever undertaken in India with an investment of Rs 30,000 crore every year, unleashing wage employment and livelihood opportunities for millions of rural poor in the country. When the news that hundreds of panchayat …
Studies done by scholars like Narayanan (2008), Vijayanand (2008) and Sharif (2008) show that in spite of many limitations the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has become a women's programme. Narayanan and Vijayanand have restricted their study to one state each only, but Sharif has studied seven states. Their …
CHENNAI: A sum of Rs.1,286 crore has been spent so far in the State under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), out of the total outlay of Rs.1,808 crore. An official release issued on Friday stated that steps were being taken to utilise remaining outlay. Between May 2006 and …
PUDUKOTTAI: Response from the villagers to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has been overwhelming in the district, Collector Reeta Harish Thakkar said. Presiding over the mass contact day programme held at Kottaikadu village in Mullankurichi village panchayat near Alankudi recently, the Collector said that a large number of villagers …
DH News Service,Shidlaghatta: Bagepalli Coolies Association has attributed failure of national rural employment guarantee scheme to the laxity on the part of the taluk panchayat executive officer. The members of the association, along with ADATS organisation, staged a dharna recently in front of the taluk panchayats, alleging that the unemployed …
NEW DELHI At a time when the United Progressive Alliance government is boasting the success of its flagship rural employment programme NREGA and readying itself to reap electoral benefits out of it, the apex audit body, CAG, has rapped up both the Centre and the state governments for poor implementation …
NEW DELHI: In view of the growing popularity of the employment scheme under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the Centre has increased the allocation for the scheme by a whopping Rs. 10,500 crore for the current financial year. In addition to the budgetary provision of Rs. 16,000 crore, …
CHENNAI: CPI (M) State secretary N. Varadarajan on Wednesday said that Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin had informed him that the State government had taken up with the Centre the issue of increasing wages paid under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Mr. Varadarajan, who submitted a memorandum drawing the …
Information: Lead District Officer of RBI M. Vijaykumar (second left), handing over a book on financial inclusion to Manager, Pallavan Grama Bank, Hosur branch, I. Asokan in Krishnagiri on Wednesday. AGM, NABARD, V. Thirumalai (second right) and Lead Bank Manager B. Vadivelu (right) are in the picture. KRISHNAGIRI: Bankers have …
DH News Service, Bagepalli: Taluk Panchayat executive officer has warned disciplinary action against Gram Panchayat secretaries failing to ensure effective implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP). Speaking in a meeting to review the progress achieved in implementation and progress of NREGP in the taluk here on Tuesday, executive …
An amount of Rs 350 crore has been spent till date on the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) schemes in the State. Schemes under the NREGA have been implemented in all the 27 districts of the State. Under the provisions of the Act, 20 lakh families …
GUWAHATI, Oct 20: Expressing concern over the slow progress in opening of accounts for payment of wages to the job card holder labourers of the State through banks and post offices under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the Centre today asked the Asom Government to complete the process …
MARGAO, OCT 14 After much delay, the government has finally launched the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Goa, but the Zilla Panchayats seems to have been entrusted no role in the implementation of the scheme. This despite the fact that the Rules framed under the scheme clearly states that …
BY NARAYAN BARETH JAIPUR The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangthan (MKSS), led by social worker Aruna Roy, is preparing itself to undertake a social audit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Ajmer district, the Sarpanch Sangh has decided to oppose the entry of MKSS members in villages. The …
