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. …
Beneficiaries of National Rural Employment Guarantee programme will get Rs 100 per day. Rural development and Panchayat Raj department has issued an order in this respect. The State government will contribute Rs 15 along with Union government which is already paying Rs 85. Disclosing this at a meeting to review …
Madhya Pradesh Right to Food Campaign and Apda Niwaran Manch presents a field report on the status of Social Welfare Schemes in Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh.
The much-delayed National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme finally made a beginning in the state, with the Rural Development Agency providing daily wage jobs to 17 persons from Gaondongrim village in Canacona taluka from December 30. These 17 daily wage workers, who had applied for jobs under the scheme were provided …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) extended its operations to all the districts in India by 1st April 2008, guarantees 100 days of wage employment to every household whose adult members volunteer to perform skilled manual work and NREGS also envisages the createion of durable assets and strengthening the …
The NREGP is the largest ever employment programme in human history and India will have to allocate Rs 30,000 crores every year to sustain this programme. It has, since it was implemented, made news across the country, some good and some not so good.
The Government of Andhra Pradesh established the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP), in the year 2000, to bring light into the lives of the rural poor. It implements two poverty reduction projects with an amount of Rs. 2000 crores. SERP's current programmes reach year by 80 lakh households …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has become a money spinner for officials, middlemen and employees. According to sources, the mandal parishad development officer (MPDO), technical assistant, field assistants and middlemen siphoned off nearly Rs 25 lakh during the implementation of the NREGS scheme in Chinnamandem mandal of Kadapa …
The implementation of much heralded National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been delayed even as the scheme was widely advertised by Rural Development Agency (RDA) through out the year. Takeoff of the scheme was stalled as a result of non issuance of the notification that ought to have declared …
Indore, Dec 25: The response to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Indore district is far from satisfactory with only a fraction of labourers in the district showing interest in the scheme. The reasons for this have been attributed to the labourers' interest in private works wherein the labourers …
Bangarpet, DHNS: The works of the National Employment Guarantee Scheme kick started on Wednesday with enthusiastic men and women participating in large numbers at Soolikunte gram panchayat in Bangarpet. More than 80 workers from Soolikunte gram panchayat planted saplings at a lake in Mugalabele village and started the first phase …
RAJOURI, Dec 17: District Development Commissioner, (DDC) Rajouri, Sheikh Rafiq Ahmed inaugurated a one day training cum awareness camp on National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) organized by Department of Rural Development, Rajouri in the conference hall of PWD Dak Bungalow. The camp was organized with the objective of making …
SHILLONG: Meghalaya continues to have a poor record when it comes to implementation of Central schemes. Besides several other projects including Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), one of the most progressive social welfare schemes called National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has yet to take off in the State …
Even as the government tries to walk a tight rope between the demands of industries and employees on a hike in the minimum wage rate, the fate of two important employment generating schemes hangs in balance for want of an enhanced wage rate for daily workers. A hike in the …
At a review meeting of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, block development officers of East Singhbhum district were directed to hike the wage of labourers in accordance with the revised structure. The meeting was held at East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Rabindra Kumar Agarwal
GUWAHATI, Dec 1: The Asom Government has decided to set up a job-generation council to be headed by the Chief Minister in the State. Talking to newsmen at the launch of the Prime Minister
Rajahmundry Nov. 27: In the wake of the increasing number of irregularities in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the state government has taken up an exercise to streamline its implementation by training field and technical staff and systematise the execution of the works. In East Godavari, …
Scheme provides for bank loans to start ventures involving Rs. 25 lakh investment TIRUCHI: The Central government has allotted Rs. 163.50 lakh to Tiruchi district for disbursal as subsidy amounts under the new Prime Minister
