Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) helped lower poverty by 32 per cent between 2004-05 and 2011-12, lifting almost 14 million in this regard, says a recent survey by the National Council for Applied Economic Research and the University of Maryland. The study involved 26,000 households and …
MGNREGA Sameeksha II is proposed as a continuation of the objective of nurturing a discourse around MGNREGA which is open, scientific, critical and constructive. It reviews research studies carried out and published over the last two years (2012–14) to foster reflection and understanding about MGNREGA and its impact. It is …
For the first time in Vagurampatti village panchayat, workers called, ‘Thuimai Kavalargal’, visit each household and involve in door-to-door collection of garbage and segregate it and dump in yards. Inaugurated by Collector V. Dakshinamoorthy in the presence of District Rural Development Authority Project Director C. Malathi, the solid waste management …
CLEAR ROAD MAP Govt will use socio-economic census data to identify the causes in one lakh villages at household levels. The government is preparing a blueprint for attacking the root causes of poverty in over 1 lakh villages instead of running piecemeal schemes that do not address the specific challenge …
BHUBANESWAR: As the Forest and Environment department has failed to achieve its afforestation target during the last few years, the State Government has decided to take up plantation activities in convergence with MGNREGS funds. The district collectors have been directed to involve village committees in all plantation activities as per …
The present paper attempts to evaluate the economic conditions of the farm households of Yavatmal district of Vidarbha region. The district has reported an increasing number of suicides during the period of Jan. to Dec. 2011.This is in a striking contrast with other districts of Vidarbha in which suicide rates …
This report is based on the employment and unemployment survey conducted in the 68th round of NSS during July 2011 to June 2012. In this report, estimates of the employment and unemployment indicators are presented for each of the class 1 cities, for size class 2 towns and for size …
At a time when rural India is in distress, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), which could have provided some relief, is itself facing its worst period ever. The number of people working under the scheme and the amount of work provided is dwindling, and the trend …
The Madras High Court has issued a direction to Kancheepuram District Collector to ensure that no construction comes up on the bunds of a temple tank at Kodur village in Cheyyur Taluk. A Bench comprising Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice R. Mala also recalled how a direction of the First …
The objective of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 aims at building sustainable livelihoods for the rural households. In pursuance of this objective, a Project for Livelihoods in Full Employment under MGNREGA (Project Life- MGNREGA) has been formulated.
These guidelines outline the modalities of convergence between the National Mission for Green India (GIM) and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) so as to achieve environmentally sound interventions to climate change and achieve a faster growth rate in the rural economy.
The Central government has given a go ahead to the state’s proposal for setting up of a water testing laboratory in Dehradun. This was informed by Chief Minister Harish Rawat, who yesterday met Union Panchayati Raj, Rural Development and Potable Water Minister Birendra Singh in Delhi. The minister informed Harish …
The performance of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan was debated for its stupendous performance in the initial years of the scheme, but also for the relative sharp decline after 2010. Based on a large representative primary survey, this paper argues that the decline in performance of this scheme …
People can approach village panchayat or block development office It has been targeted to construct two lakh individual household toilets in the district under the Total Sanitation Campaign shortly and the works on this project had already commenced. A subsidy of Rs. 12,000 is being provided under the rural sanitation …
Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate factors such as increasing demand particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising agricultural cost of production, changing consumption pattern favoring protein items, increases in minimum support prices (MSPs) and droughts in certain years are believed to …
A total area of 6,305 hectares identified for the project The Mavelikkara block panchayat is embarking on a project of water conservation by coming under the ambit of the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP). The IWMP is a Centrally-sponsored scheme that has been launched by the Department of Land Resources …
While government spending on pro-poor community asset creation and income-transfers could have compounding positive effects on poverty reduction, it is important to first study trends in the allocation of funds, particularly as they relate to the susceptibility of the program to political clientelism. This paper uses expenditure data at the …
A total of 77,522 sq km area in Madhya Pradesh and 67,321 sq km area in Arunachal Pradesh are under forest cover, Lok Sabha was informed today. Minister for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar said out of the 3,08,245 sq km geographical area in Madhya Pradesh, 77,522 sq km area …
