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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) launched in 2005 is the largest rural employment programme ever undertaken in India with an investment of Rs 30,000 crore every year, unleashing wage employment and livelihood opportunities for millions of rural poor in the country. When the news that hundreds of panchayat …
CHENNAI: A sum of Rs.1,286 crore has been spent so far in the State under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), out of the total outlay of Rs.1,808 crore. An official release issued on Friday stated that steps were being taken to utilise remaining outlay. Between May 2006 and …
PUDUKOTTAI: Response from the villagers to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has been overwhelming in the district, Collector Reeta Harish Thakkar said. Presiding over the mass contact day programme held at Kottaikadu village in Mullankurichi village panchayat near Alankudi recently, the Collector said that a large number of villagers …
DH News Service,Shidlaghatta: Bagepalli Coolies Association has attributed failure of national rural employment guarantee scheme to the laxity on the part of the taluk panchayat executive officer. The members of the association, along with ADATS organisation, staged a dharna recently in front of the taluk panchayats, alleging that the unemployed …
CHENNAI: CPI (M) State secretary N. Varadarajan on Wednesday said that Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin had informed him that the State government had taken up with the Centre the issue of increasing wages paid under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Mr. Varadarajan, who submitted a memorandum drawing the …
Information: Lead District Officer of RBI M. Vijaykumar (second left), handing over a book on financial inclusion to Manager, Pallavan Grama Bank, Hosur branch, I. Asokan in Krishnagiri on Wednesday. AGM, NABARD, V. Thirumalai (second right) and Lead Bank Manager B. Vadivelu (right) are in the picture. KRISHNAGIRI: Bankers have …
DH News Service, Bagepalli: Taluk Panchayat executive officer has warned disciplinary action against Gram Panchayat secretaries failing to ensure effective implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP). Speaking in a meeting to review the progress achieved in implementation and progress of NREGP in the taluk here on Tuesday, executive …
GUWAHATI, Oct 20: Expressing concern over the slow progress in opening of accounts for payment of wages to the job card holder labourers of the State through banks and post offices under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the Centre today asked the Asom Government to complete the process …
MARGAO, OCT 14 After much delay, the government has finally launched the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Goa, but the Zilla Panchayats seems to have been entrusted no role in the implementation of the scheme. This despite the fact that the Rules framed under the scheme clearly states that …
BY NARAYAN BARETH JAIPUR The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangthan (MKSS), led by social worker Aruna Roy, is preparing itself to undertake a social audit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Ajmer district, the Sarpanch Sangh has decided to oppose the entry of MKSS members in villages. The …
Tirunelveli, VILLAGERS of Aalavandhankulam under Manoor Panchayat Union in Tirunelveli district complained to the District Collector that they have been receiving less money as payment under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP). In a petition submitted to the District Collector G Prakash during the grievance day meeting held here …
DH News Service, Mulbagal: Under the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme Rs 33.64 crore work in 30 gram panchayats to be undertaken were proposed at a special meeting of the taluk panchayat held on Saturday. The meeting presided by president Raghupathy Reddy discussed regarding the works, the action plan for …
Press Trust Of India / New Delhi October 03, 2008, 0:59 IST Agriculturists in Punjab seem to be struggling this season to hire migrant farm workers from Bihar and are believed to be using novel ways, like offering free cell phones, to lure them. The lower scale of seasonal migration …
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the States to put in place a mechanism to rigorously evaluate the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. He was speaking at a function on
HEARING THEIR GRIEVANCES: Villupuram Collector R.Palanisamy attending the gram sabha meeting at Nannadu in Cuddalore district on Thursday. VILLUPURAM: Gram sabha meetings were held in Villupuram and Cuddalore districts to commemorate Gandhi Jayanthi on Thursday. While Villupuram District Collector R. Palanisamy attended as an observer in the nannadu gram sabha …
