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. …
It was unique event. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has always been in focus since the Act was adopted in 2006. For the first time an assembly of 1,245 sarpanches and other elected local government representatives sat for two days on Oct 14 and 15, 2008, to review …
Thousand of unskilled workers employed in works undertaken by the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) across Tamil Nadu are agitated over the erosion of a substantial part of their daily wages. Their apprehensions are based on what labour leaders call
NREGP SCAN Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi September 26, 2008, 0:51 IST The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) was meant for the poorest of the poor, those who will sweat it out in the heat for survival. Reports from villages where the scheme has been implemented suggest that might …
NREGP SCAN Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi September 25, 2008, 0:26 IST It is now more or less universally acknowledged that there is substantial pilferage from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP). But there is some good news for the Manmohan Singh government which launched the programme with much …
NREGP SCAN Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi September 24, 2008, 0:18 IST Few social sector schemes have drawn so much flak as the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance
Mihir Shah Any anti-poverty programme will work only if it leads to an end to dependence on doles. To end this dependence, sustainable livelihoods must be created for the poor. Anti-poverty programmes will work only if they lead to sustainable livelihoods and end dependence on doles. This requires stronger people
Karimnagar, Sept. 19: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme of the Central government has inadvertently led to large-scale mechanisation in the agriculture sector of the district. More than 4.50 lakh people have been working on various NREGS projects in the district and this has created acute shortage of farm labourers. …
DH News Service, Bangarpet: Taluk Panchayat meeting held here on Wednesday approved Rs 28.79 cr action plan to take up asset creation under National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in 37 gram panchayat limits. The meeting, presided over by Taluk Panchayat president Shankarappa, deliberated on utilisation of the grants released to …
BISWANATH CHARIALI, Sept 16: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) was formally inaugurated in Biswanath Development Block under Biswanath Subdivision by the Biswanath SDO Vishal Solanki recently. The programme commenced with the planting of a sapling under social forestation scheme for the year 2008-09 at Farsiati Idgah Maidan at …
TIRUCHI: Over 3.06 lakh persons have registered for jobs under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Tiruchi district. Over 843 works, at an estimated cost of Rs.31.85 crore, have been taken up under the scheme, implemented in all the 408 village panchayats of the district, Collector T. Soundiah …
NEW DELHI With Bihar still grappling with the ravages of the Kosi floods, the rural development ministry has chipped in with a massive additional allocation of Rs 1,600 crores for the relief and rehabilitation work in the state. The amount is over and above the grant of Rs 1,000 crores …
SMART CARDS PART III Rakesh Prakash & Bishnu Dash / Bangalore/bhubaneswar September 03, 2008, 1:16 IST Farm workers swiping biometric cards to receive their daily wages is all set to become a reality in Orissa and Karnataka villages. Both states are ready to distribute smart cards to ensure transparency in …
All these malnutrition deaths occurred in one district in Madhya Pradesh This sounds like yet another tale of malnutrition deaths concocted by activists. At least the district administration of Satna, Madhya Pradesh, thinks so. One year-old Budhlal died in the last week of July. The same week, two-year-old Sheelta, four-year-old …
NEW DELHI,Aug. 29: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) could hit a block if the funds from the finance ministry do not come in time. The rural development ministry has demanded a supplementary allowance of Rs 8,000 crores to take the programme forward till this November. "We have written …
PALAKKAD: The grama panchayats in various districts of the state which execute afforestation and soil and water conservation schemes in an exemplary manner by including it under the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (NREGS) will be given awards, according to Finance Minister Thomas Isaac. The award money will be announced …
Kadapa, Aug. 20: The district administration registered criminal cases against 19 officials and people's representatives at the Veerapunayanipalle police station on Tuesday for misusing funds sanctioned for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). A total of Rs 2.7 crore was spent in Veerapunayanipalle mandal under the NREGS. About Rs …
If the Congress propaganda in 2004 is given any credence, then the party has deviated significantly from its original commitment. At the release of the National Common Minimum Programme in May 2004 by UPA partners and the Left. THE Indian Left cannot be accused of deviance for its decision to …
