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 …
Kurnool, July 16: The District Water Management Agency (Dwma) project director, Mr Wilson Babu, issued orders on Wednesday suspending 43 employees for irregularities in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). He also removed 70 masons. Mr Wilson Babu inspected the NREGS office in Atmakur and found …
DH News Service, Mulbagal: Elected representatives and state machinery should give widespread publicity to development works formulated by the government, opined local MLA Amaresh. He was speaking after inaugurating Bharat Nirman programme at Tayalur in the taluk on Monday. He disclosed that as many as 100 villages in the taluk …
The Rural Workers Association (RWA) and the district administration here are on a collision course over the non-payment of wages to workers, unemployment allowance to those eligible and non-availability of work for 1,500 job card holders under the NREGA in Khalwahan, Khani, Thata and Bung panchayats in the district. RWA …
For the past four years, Badrinath, a landless farmer of Nalai village, has been moving for pillar to post to get his name included in the Below Poverty Line (BPL) list, but to no avail. With nine members of his family on the verge of starvation, he approached the authorities …
Activists of five farmers unions and rural workers staged a dharna in front of the deputy commissioner's office here today. They were demanding redressing of their complaints and starting projects for the rural poor under the NREGA in the district. President of the Rural Workers Association Sant Ram, convener of …
In his latest pre-poll bonanza for the poor, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has decided to provide 25 kg of rice a month to all the families living Below the Poverty Line (BPL) at Rs 2 per kg. At a high-level meeting chaired by the Chief Minister on Monday it was …
There is no proper implementation of schemes for people's welfare as announced by the government. As a result several problems are raising their head. This year there has been a record purchase of wheat at the mandis on support price. However, the farmers who could not sell their wheat in …
Rs 80 then, Rs 45 now, complain villagers Dindigul VILLAGERS who are the beneficiaries of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) are complaining that the wages paid to them have been gradually reduced, much to their disappointment. On Friday last, about 3,000 workers, led by Balabarathi, MLA, resorted to …
Decentralization is broadly defined as transfer of power to the lower level of government (PRIs). It mainly takes three forms, namely political, administrative and fiscal. The legitimacy of the centralized system of governance is on a decline because of various factors including lower participation by people, lack of accountability, weak …
The two men profiled here were killed because they worked to take the government rural employment scheme to people for whom it is meant A crusader who fought corruption and took up cudgels against usury and illicit liquor, Orissa
A palm-sized cd has become the prized possession of Jagdish Mehta, the father of social activist Lalit Mehta, who was brutally murdered in Kandra jungles of Palamu district in Jharkhand on May 14. His eyes gleam as he holds the cd in his hands. It contains a record of a …
This paper summarises the key findings of a number of studies that were prepared for two international conferences devoted to comparing the rural development and agricultural reform experiences of China (the dragon) and India (the elephant) over the last several decades.
The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programme in the Philippines has made substantial progress in dealing with land reform. Much more remains to be done and Filipino society is actively engaged in critically discussing the past and the future of CARP. There are lessons here for India where policymaking circles remain obsessed …
Saeed Khan | TNN Ahmedabad: Gujarat government might have got a reprimand from Centre for not implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in a proper manner, but residents in a distant Naroda village of the Panchamahals district found a new pressure tactic to get the scheme implemented systematically. …
Intellectuals write to Manmohan, seeking his intervention Job card should specify payments made and rights of labourers Keep muster roll at workplace Intellectuals and social activists have sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention in implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme and to ensure the safety of activists associated …
The draft report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the working of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was used by many sections of the media to strongly criticise this employment programme. Much of the coverage sensationalised the findings of the report. What did the CAG actually say? Where …
NEW DELHI: More than 100 eminent people from different walks of life have come together to condemn violence on social activists in Jharkhand and demand a CBI probe into the killing of Lalit Mehta and the widespread corruption in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme. They have …
National Sample Survey data in Income, Expenditure and Productive Assests of Farmer Households, 2003 showed that 96 per cent of farmer households are in deficit and half of the households are indebted. Debt waiver can only be welcomed in such a situation. Once indebted, marginal and small farmers will hardly …
Participants in advocacy meeting here on Thursday stressed the need for undertaking health education programmes. Terming the good health as the driving force of the economy, they said importance should be given to health education and promotional programmes in the greater interest of economic emancipation. The Health Education Bureau of …
