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. …
In the district of Sirsa in Haryana, wage rates have increased appreciably after the nregs started being implemented there. Being a cotton-producing district, the daily wage for cotton-picking workers was around Rs85 when the scheme was launched. While the scheme offered Rs95, workers shifted to projects run under the scheme. …
The national rural employment guarantee scheme completes two years and moves to cover all the districts in the country. Has it been worth it? The plateau above Mokhada is a denuded forest, an ecological disaster. This taluka in the Thane district bordering Gujarat was once a lush forest. Now there …
The minister for health and family welfare, Mr Sambhani Chandrasekhar, on Monday said the state stood first in the country in executing National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Addressing a meeting, Mr Chandrasekhar said that Khammam district achi-eved first place in the state in implementing the scheme in a successful way …
Minister for agriculture, Mr N. Raghuveera Reddy, said the host of welfare schemes being implemented by the state government had given party leaders and even government officials boldness to face people in the month-long Praja Padam programme. Mr Raghuveera Reddy said people were contented unlike under the Telugu Desam (TD) …
The Raj Bhavan in Calcutta could plunge into perpetual darkness if governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi chooses to express his empathy not just with the denizens of the state capital but also with the vast rural populace of Bengal. For, figures available with the Centre reveal that Bengal has among the lowest …
The Rs 50,000-cr scheme will be for skilled rural workers. Even as the UPA government's flagship programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), is yet to deliver the desired results, the rural development ministry is giving shape to another ambitious scheme to generate jobs. The target this time is …
More than 60 years after Independence the fate of the poor and rural people in India does not seem to be changing despite several measures initiated by governments in the states and the Centre. Lack of accurate data is one of the reasons listed for this. According to a parliamentary …
Five major steps taken by the State government for implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) in the backward districts in the State has come in for praise at a national workshop in Mussourie. Minister for Local Self-government Paloli Mohammed Kutty said in a press note here on Wednesday …
BARRACKPORE (North 24-Parganas), May 6: Residents of Harishpur village have been forced to earn their livelihood by begging as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) failed to improve their lives. Harishpur, which is under Mamudpur gram panchayat near Naihati is one of the most backward villages in North 24-Parganas. …
With the CAG finding irregularities in implementation of its flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the government has decided to stop direct cash payment to the beneficiaries and open bank accounts to transfer their wages. "We will not make payment if the beneficiary does not have a bank account. …
TAMBARAM: Gram sabhas, held on Thursday in 25 panchayats of St. Thomas Mount Panchayat Union (also called Mount Block) in connection with May Day, discussed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) and how it could benefit men and women aged above 18, seeking jobs. It is mandatory for these …
More than 5,000 herbal homegard enshave been developed in remote tribal villages covered under Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project(MPRLP). These herbal home gardens have come up in Dhar, Jhabua, Barwani, Mandla, Dindori, Anuppur, Shahdol and Sheopur, an official release said. Developed under the country cooperation fund of United Nations Development …
NREGA is the culmination of a long struggle by mass organizations on the issue of providing a minimum right to work. NREGA is clear on the fact that this right is available to all rural communities. To operationalize this Act, the state of poverty in different parts of the country …
Noted social crusader Anna Hazare who called on Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday does not seem convinced by the latter's assurance and hence has threatened to go on fast unless his demands are accepted in totality. He has trained his guns on Food & Civil Supplies Minister Sunil Tatkare …
Congress national general secretary and MP, Rahul Gandhi has set out to know the pain of the public and to understand country's plight in villages. He has been amidst the villagers in Madhya Pradesh for last several days. He takes night halt at any poor man's residence in villages and …
On the occasion of May Day, the State's rural poor, particularly the seasonal agricultural labourers, have much to complain about the flagship employment scheme which gives the citizens the right to demand for work. The much touted National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) which came into effect from February 2006 …
A continuing agitation by farmers over diversion of water from the Hirakud reservoir to industrial units is threatening to spoil the Orissa government's calculations for assembly elections next year. Farmers say they will not accept anything less than a complete ban on industrial use of the dam water. On March …
The world's biggest public-works project just got bigger. In some places it is working better than many feared; but by no means everywhere James Astill OUTSIDE Ajit Pura village, in India's arid state of Rajasthan, 42 women and a man scrape earth into panniers, hoist the panniers to their heads, …
The Jorhat district administration today called a meeting to prepare the roadmap for the implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme here. The scheme, which came into effect from April 1, entails the provision of employment for at least 100 days to every needy rural household in a fiscal year. …
Bodo Territorial Council (BTC) executive member Mano Kumar Brahmo today visited the countrys's biggest National Rural Employment Gurantee (NREGA) project at river Swrmanga in Kokrajhar district. The construction of the left and right embankment of river Swrmanga at a cost of Rs 46.22 crore is well in progress. Brahma along …
