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 …
Now the government must outline path of fiscal correction, put investment back on track. The UPA government announced a number of reform measures last week. The announcements indicate a willingness to take political risks to push the reform process. The measures are signals for investors, domestic as well as foreign, …
States will no longer be able to drag their feet on taking timebound remedial actions. The Centre has issued guidelines for better implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, which include stopping funds. The move follows complaints on the UPA’s flagship rural employment programme. The Centre will exercise powers …
The Odisha Society for Social Audit, Accountability and Transparency (OSSAAT), an independent unit to conduct social audit of the MGNREGS’ implementation in the State, will start functioning from October. The State Government has just finished appointing the director and other staff of the OSSAAT. The society, whose work will be …
Cheques to the value of Rs 2.08 crore were distributed to 89 villages in Sivaganga, Tiruppuvanam, Ilayankudi, S. Pudur and Kannangudi panchayat unions for undertaking poverty eradication programmes under the ‘Pudu Vazhvu’ scheme here on Thursday. Collector V. Rajaraman, who gave away the cheques to representatives of village poverty eradication …
Rising inflation and a slowdown in growth had little impact on the rural consumption patterns which outpaced urban spending in the two year period between 2009-10 and 2011-12. Rural consumption expenditure outpaced that in urban India by 25 per cent, the first such phenomenon in over two decades, a report …
Tamil Nadu State Rural Livelihood Mission Scheme (TNSRLM), a programme to alleviate poverty in rural areas by improving the income of the households, is to be implemented in 266 panchayats in Nagapattinam and Ariyalur district. In Nagapattinam district, this programme would be implemented in 199 panchayats in the blocks of …
NEW DELHI, 3 AUG: Reflecting the gravity of the situation, the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on drought will meet here again on Tuesday, 7 August, to discuss the drought situation in the country and suggest concrete measures to provide immediate relief to the affected states. The panel headed by …
Ranking list of districts on the basis of various public welfare works undertaken under Mahatma Gandhi NREGA for the month of June has been released. Dewas district has secured the first ranking followed by Hoshangabad. After staying at the second place for consecutive two weeks, Raisen district has slipped to …
The Centre has approved a Rs 240-crore action plan of the State Government under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM). Official sources said the district administrations have been asked to submit their action plans under the NRLM to the State Government. Guidelines for preparation of action plan have already been …
Around 5 million people benefited from the World Bank’s Second Poverty Alleviation Fund Project, with half of them being women during 2004 to 2011. The Bank’s efforts helped extend 4.7 million micro-loans with a 78 per cent Return on Investment (Rol). According to a report issued by the World Bank, …
Rural people will now have more work opportunities under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guaranty Act (MNREGA) Scheme-2 as more than 30 new work sectors have been added in the scheme. Till now most works under Panchayat and Rural development department used to provide works under the scheme and thus, …
Bhubaneswar: A year after the CBI probed into the irregularities across six districts of Orissa, a special performance audit of the implementation of the NREGS programme by the Comptroller and Auditor General has found misappropriation of funds through ghost workers, uneconomic execution of the works, delay in payment, and irregular …
AGARTALA: Union minister Jairam Ramesh has said 'Aadhaar' numbers, the unique 12-digit identification numbers given to residents of India, would be used to provide different social pensions, MGNREGA wages to workers and scholarships to students. "The Aadhaar-enabled applications would be utilised immediately in some selected 50 districts of the country, …
States asked to send proposals for additional funds Weak performance of monsoon this year has led the government to anticipate a significant increase in demand for work under its flagship rural employment guarantee scheme. The rural development ministry has asked all states to prepare contingency plans and review their estimates …
Supply of migrant workers is drying up because of NREGS, say babus, industrialists and farmers. But workers themselves say this is not the case Patiala/Sangrur: Everyone agrees that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is causing a shortage of agricultural labour. Everyone, except the workers themselves. For …
BALASORE: People from rural pockets of coastal Balasore district commute daily to the town and work as masons, labourers at construction sites and get back home by evening. Even as this has solved labour problem in the construction sector, it dented the Union Government’s flagship programme - Mahatma Gandhi National …
Corruption now threatens to bring down a land of opportunity Four quarters of steady economic deceleration have caused widespread anxiety. The talk of a new Hindu rate of growth — different from the late Raj Krishna’s famous 3.5 per cent per annum, but hovering around 5-6 per cent, far below …
Jairam Ramesh’s criticism of NREGA highlights that a rights-based approach to poverty reduction cannot work without improving implementation The clamour for the right to social pensions is another attempt to deal with the Indian state’s inability to provide adequate social protection to its poorest citizens through targeted programmes. India’s vulnerable …
Anew expert panel to identify the poor has been tasked with reviewing whether and how other criteria can be combined with the consumption basket. Though the focus remains on methodological issues, there is a real opportunity for a long overdue shift in the poverty debate from Garibi Hatao, aam aadmi …
