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. …
As the phase of implementation of the law approaches, there is palpable unease among the tribal populations. At Pipalkhura, forest Department personnel destroyed tribal homes and took away their belongings. THE road to Pipalkhura is long, rocky and dusty. Across a parched, hilly landscape occasionally broken by a village, farm …
While the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government may boast of having successfully implemented the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) scheme across the country, the real story in the national Capital is that graduates and post-graduates have taken to begging due to lack of employment opportunities. They may be indulging …
Does away with middlemen; ten States keen to replicate model The implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) through biometric smart cards in Andhra Pradesh has attracted nationwide attention, with many States planning to adopt a similar method. Financial Information Network and Operations Ltd (FINO), a Mumbai-based technology solutions …
Economy on the move: The President, Ms Pratibha Patil, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Lok Sabha Speaker, Mr Somnath Chatterjee, and the Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Mr P.R. Dasmunshi, arriving to attend the first day of the Budget Session at Parliament House in the Capital on Monday.
DOWN TO EARTH Sunita Narain / New Delhi February 26, 2008 It was the mid-1980s, environmentalist Anil Agarwal was on a mission: to track down the person who had conceptualised the employment guarantee scheme in Maharashtra. His hunt (I tagged along) led him to a dusty, file-paper filled office in …
Works would be undertaken under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the National Parks. This information was given by Forest Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah at a meeting of officers of National Parks, Forest Department and National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme . This meeting of officers of National Rural Employment Guarantee …
In the wake of a CAG report pointing to "significant deficiencies' in the implementation of UPA Government's flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme, the Union Rural Development Ministry has decided to keep all the In a recent letter to all MPs, Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad has informed them about …
The newly introduced National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has succeeded in getting positive response in Barkshetri development block areas in Nalbari district especially among the labour class people. In this minority-dominated development block which has three gaon panchayats in char areas, work of about Rs 4.50 crore are under …
Over one lakh families in Mizoram have been affected by the ongoing shortage of food due to the gregarious bamboo flowering which has triggered a famine like situation in the State. According to official records submitted by Deputy Commissioners of all the eight districts, rural people depending on cultivation have …
Micro-finance is the key to helping India's poorest The growing chasm between India and Bharat is taking its toll on political formations in the country. Government policies skewed towards urban agglomerates have seen the electorate teach rude lessons to politicos at the hustings. Four years ago, the NDA was jolted …
An exhaustive social audit of the much talked about National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Jhalawar district of Rajasthan has revealed large-scale fraud in material supplies, extortion of money for job cards, dead people registered on muster rolls, and lack of transparency in the execution of works. However, the …
Prolonged political instability in Karnataka leading up to the imposition of the Presidents rule last November appears to have adversely impacted the implementation of various welfare schemes in the State. According to an updated status report on the implementation of the UPA government's flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), …
Policy initiatives by the administration have put the resource-rich East Godavari district on the road to all-round development. Considered the rice granary of India, East Godavari district has always been in the forefront of all-round economic development, setting itself as a role model for several districts not just in Andhra …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, (NREGA) was notified on September 7, 2005. The objective of the Act is to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled …
The Congress does not lose any opportunity to flay state governments, ruled by rival parties, of misappropriating funds disbursed under the Centre's flagship schemes. The party is known to get particularly peeved when the credit for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (nregs), which should have gone to it, actually …
Hunger is unpalatable. For a government that wishes to assert that it is not callous, it is particularly so. But hunger, with a capital H, is a pill that millions of people in Madhya Pradesh continue to swallow. In 2005 and 2006, Frontline reported acute malnutrition from Sheopur and Shivpuri …
The objective of this paper is to look at the financial and economic aspects of the NREGA. It will be studying the implications for the rural economy as a result of the minimum wage and employment instituted by the Act. Also, the greater bargaining power of the rural workforce and …
For mani shankar aiyar, Union minister of Panchayati Raj, the biggest obstacle with decentralisation is not a lack of political will but not getting the design right. Excerpts from an interview to richard mahapatra and sandip das On being India's first minister of Panchayati Raj Being the first minister of …
