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 …
This article examines the performance of the National Rural Employment Guarantee programme since its launch in mid-2005. It first provides a summary of progress in certain areas and then highlights specific weaknesses. Finally, it describes the challenges that lie ahead and suggests how these can be overcome.
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi July 30, 2008, 0:50 IST The UPA government is planning to amend the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) to redefine the beneficiaries under the Act. At present, the Act provides 100 days of work per household. The idea is to substitute the word
M Rafi Ahmed|ENS Coimbatore JOBS galore for villagers, but very few takers for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). And the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) here has left no stone unturned to popularise the scheme across the rural belt. Sources said lack of interest among the villagers was …
Pune, July 28 Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh will soon be meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to seek central aid to counter the drought-like situation prevailing in the state, despite the intermittent rains in the last few days. As a first step towards this, divisional commissioners of the six revenue divisions …
Commentarao S.L. Rao Results first Subsidies have been the albatross around the necks of finance ministers, from Manmohan Singh in 1991 to P. Chidambaram today. These have constrained the freedom to invest in agriculture and in infrastructure, both physical and social. This has resulted in increased inequalities in sectoral growth …
Hunger and malnutrition deaths continue to be reported from Madhya Pradesh. Press reported that hunger forced a 11-year-old girl to commit suicide in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur town. It is story of Sanjeeda, a resident of Moti Nagar in Jabalpur, who committed suicide by hanging herself. She was hungry for the …
NORTH LAKHIMPUR, July 22: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is witnessing a trouble time here when 4 ward members of 1,3, 4 and 22 wards of Tinthengia gaon panchayat under Karunabari Anchalik panchayat have alleged of massive corruption in the scheme at the implementation phase. In a complaint …
NREGS wages paid through PO savings accounts 16 lakh NREGS accounts already opened Current target: 1 crore. Final target: 2 crore JAIPUR: The village post offices, slowly losing ground to the highly competitive private enterprises both in savings accounts and delivery of letters, are busy once again thanks to the …
Fund will not be a constraint to provide 100 mandays work to the job cardholders with the Union Government pumping the highest-ever allocation to carry out the national flagship scheme
-NGOs, activists point to government mismanagement SANTOSH KIRO An activist addresses NGO members at the symposium on Monday. Picture by Manik Bose Ranchi, July 21: Repeated reminders to the Jharkhand government to safeguard the common man's right to food have fallen on deaf ears in the state, some activists believe. …
BHUBANESWAR: All set to launch the Rs 2- a-kg BPL rice scheme from August 1, the State Government today decided to issue temporary ration cards by July 25 to those beneficiaries who have lost their cards. A high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik discussed the modalities of delivery …
The World Bank's press release on May 20 on the launch of the Commission on Growth and Development's report quoted the Commission's chairperson, Mike Spence as saying that the report "kills off once and for all the misguided notion that you can lift people out of poverty in the absence …
"Only 25 per cent of the NREGS funds have actually reached beneficiaries' "Rs.2,100 crore apparently siphoned off by the executing authorities' "Loot, plunder and pillage of the NREGS funds has been truly participatory' BHOPAL: A study carried out by the Delhi-based Centre for Environment and Food Security (CEFS) has challenged …
An eleven-years-old girl, Sanjeeda of Anand Nagar, Jabalpur committed suicide due to hunger. Congress party on this surrounding the state government said that Mukhyamantri Annapurna Yojna is only on papers in such scenario the slogan of state government Garib Ki Thali Na Rahegi Khali has proved to be failed. Congress …
GUWAHATI, July 16: The Assam Assembly today witnessed a heated discussion over the underutilization of Sampurna Gramin Rojgar Yojana (SGRY) funds and failure of the Government to get the SGRY's term extended in the State to execute the pending schemes. The Opposition criticized the State Government's failure to extend the …
JORHAT, July 16: As many as 37,500 new jobs have been created for the implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) schemes in the State. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who inaugurated the NREGA schemes for Jorhat district at an official function held at Kalakunj public hall at Borholla in …
Bangalore, DHNS: Now, NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) beneficiaries can take up works in their private land too... Rural Development and Panchayat Raj department has taken the decision to allow works related to rain water harvesting and afforestation under the scheme in private land. Since the introduction of the …
