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. …
Whistle blower As we go to press, there are reports that yet another NREGS activist, Kameshwar Yadav, has fallen victim to unidentified gunmen near Gadi village in Jharkhand
Intellectuals write to Manmohan, seeking his intervention Job card should specify payments made and rights of labourers Keep muster roll at workplace Intellectuals and social activists have sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention in implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme and to ensure the safety of activists associated …
A company that has 1,600 farmers' families as shareholders - report of Savvy Soumya Mishra from Raipur This summer if you use a prickly heat powder manufactured by Emami think of Agricon Agropreneurs Limited. The Raipur-based public limited company supplies mentha, a common ingredient in many beauty products, to the …
Jatropha would be planted at the peripheries of new plantations to be undertaken by Forest Department. Giving this information, Forest Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah informed that in the coming days this move would ensure livelihood to rural people though Forest Committees and bio-diesel would also become available from jatropha oil …
To stage dharna outside Jharkhand Bhavan on June 20 Expresses concern over protection of those conducting surveys, social audits NEW DELHI: Several members of the Central Employment Guarantee Council who had demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry into the murder of social activist Lalit Mehta at Palamau in Jharkhand …
NEW DELHI: More than 100 eminent people from different walks of life have come together to condemn violence on social activists in Jharkhand and demand a CBI probe into the killing of Lalit Mehta and the widespread corruption in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme. They have …
In the last few months there have been more than a few instances of sparring between the different state governments and the central government. So, if the Jaipur blasts became a bone of political contention about crucial intelligence reports, West Bengal becomes an election battleground where the allies at the …
National Sample Survey data in Income, Expenditure and Productive Assests of Farmer Households, 2003 showed that 96 per cent of farmer households are in deficit and half of the households are indebted. Debt waiver can only be welcomed in such a situation. Once indebted, marginal and small farmers will hardly …
JAIPUR: Rajasthan Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Kalulal Gujjar on Thursday claimed that the Centre had given "top ranking' to the State in implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The Centre has reportedly given 82.86 marks on a scale of 100 to Rajasthan in an inter-State ranking …
The Common Guidelines for Watershed Development Projects, brought out by the union government, is an adapted version of the Parthasarathy Committee Report. This article highlights some of the major features of the guidelines and discusses ways to take forward the main concerns that have engaged much of the recent policy …
The United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre, which is left with less than a year in office before seeking a fresh mandate of the people, ought to draw three main conclusions from the Bhartiya Janata Party's first-ever victory in a state in the southern peninsula, which has jolted the …
The district authorities today decided to launch a special campaign to issue job cards to villagers under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). The authorities have also announced that work on 30 projects will begin in 30 of the 240 villages in the district on June 10. The Tribune …
After anomalies in issue of job cards and payments to beneficiaries, it is now money spent on photographs taken for physical verification of works done under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) that is under the scanner in Uttar Pradesh. Reports received at the Department of Rural Development show …
Owing to ignorance on the part of poor villagers and lack of interest being shown by nationalised and cooperative banks, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is facing a rough weather in the district despite more than two months of its implementation on paper. Of the 25,000-odd poor families …
Two months down the line and Goan unemployed youths may still be waiting for a guaranteed job under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. But, introduced in April last, the Rural Development Agencies of both North and South districts are putting in place the logistics required to ensure the scheme …
It's little after 8.oo in the morning as we (BT photographer Debashish Paul and i) drive down the bumpy roads (that often degenerate into dirt tracks) bisecting picturesque tea gardens. We get the whiff of tea leaves (the most crucial second flush
Water crisis in Maharashtra is the making of the state's faulty strategy and misguided policies. A recent report, Combating drought in Maharashtra, explains how by critically analyzing Maharashtra's irrigation projects, recurrent floods and water policy. Released by Dushkal Hatavu Manus Jagavu (Maharashtra Drought Forum), a network of ngos, the report …
The Planning Commission today gave a go-ahead to Uttar Pradesh for its annual Plan outlay of Rs 35,000 crore for 2008-09, representing an increase of about 40 per cent over the allocation during the previous fiscal The Planning Commission has also meeting between the Planning Commission member, Mr B.K. Chaturvedi, …
India got a pat from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for its pathbreaking efforts in providing social-security coverage through the flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) and Unorganised Sector Workers Social Security Bill. ILO director-general Juan Somavia, in his address to the two-day AsiaPacific Regional High-Level Meeting on Socially …
The decision of the rural development ministry to keep tabs over the performance of states regarding the implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is giving sleepless nights to the development officers in Uttarakhand. According to a recent report, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Gujarat will undergo
