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 …
The Nitish Kumar Government on Friday revised the Public Distribution System (PDS) and slashed the quota of foodgrain for Below Poverty Line (BPL) families from 35 to 25 kg and that of kerosene from four to three litre. Announcing the revision in the Assembly, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said the …
To create awareness among the rural masses on the benefits of the National Rural Employment Assurance Act (NREGA), an awareness meeting was organized by the Biswanath Civil Administration yesterday at the SDO (c) office Conference hall with the lat mondals and gaon burahs under Biswanath subdivision Vishal Solanki, SDO (C), …
The Kerala government will depute a high-level task force with Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu P. Sainath, Aruna Roy (both Magsaysay Award winners), and developmental economist Jean Dreze as members to evaluate the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the State and submit recommendations. This was …
TO BE sure, there are a number of problems with the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) that provides a universal, selftargeting guarantee of 100 days of employment to every rural household in 596 districts of India. In a four-part series, this newspaper highlighted sharp regional contrasts …
Community Score Card (CSC), a new technique among the available social accountability tools, was used in Rajasthan recently to assess the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Sirohi district. The CSC was put to use for the first time in the State by CUTS Centre for …
The stage is set for universalising the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and extending it to all the 596 rural districts in the country from April 1. AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday led the Congress MPs' delegation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the ways and means …
Mizoram Rural Development Minister H Vanlalauva has held both the Central and State governments responsible for failing to fully implement the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in the State. While the scheme was carried out for about only 20-30 days in Lunglei district and just for 14 days in …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is to be implemented at a cost of nearly Rs 151 crore in West Godavari district from April. The district administration has worked out an action plan to implement the scheme. Already 3.89 lakh workers were registered under the scheme. Works like water …
Public Relations, Culture and Mineral Resources Minister Laxmikant Sharma has said that modern technical know-how must be used for eradicating illiteracy, poverty and hunger from the face of the earth. He said that engineering helps solve problems of real life easily. That is why it has an important role in …
With the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) set to be extended to all districts from April 2008, the Ministry of Rural Development has sent letters to state governments asking them to wind up all projects under the Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) before the end of this month. The …
This article presents results on the participation of rural workers in the National Rural Employment Guarantee programme based on a pilot survey of three villages in Udaipur district in Rajasthan. Its focus is on participation in the NREG programme of different socio-economic groups and the determinants of the participation of …
It was the mid-1980s. Environmentalist Anil Agarwal was on a mission: track down the person who had conceptualized the employment guarantee scheme in Maharashtra. His search - I tagged along - led him to a dusty, file-filled office in the secretariat. There we met V S Page. I remember a …
The Lakhimpur District Branch of Indian Red Cross Society conducted a series of relief camps to distribute essentials to the flood victims in different parts of the district. The first of such camp was held at Na-Kadam, under Kadam revenue circle on February 25. The relief material distribution meeting was …
The same implementation structure that has failed rural development over decades cannot be deployed for the radically new programme promised by NREGA. Barely two years on, there is a clamour for scrapping the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). The chorus is led by no less than the Chief Minister …
Allegations are rife that the Block Development Officer (BDO) Madhu Sudhan Nath of Ruposi development block under Barpeta district has misappropriated a huge amount of Government fund meant for various rural development schemes. The BDO under pressure from the people here has reportedly confessed his involvement in the act. According …
Over 45-lakh BPL families would be given wheat and rice at subsidised rates of Rs 3 and Rs 4.50 per kg, respectively from April this year. The rate would be Rs 2 less than the prescribed rates. Each family would get 20 kg wheat or rice. This would entail an …
Union rural development minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has put the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) under the scanner, in order to plug loopholes and to make it foolproof, as the stage is set for the universalisation of NREGS from April 1. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was launched …
The Assam Assembly today witnessed a ruckus during the discussion on the implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in the State during the Question Hour. Replying to questions, State Panchayat and Rural Development (P & RD) Minister Chandan Brahma said the scheme was being implemented in its true …
