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. …
function graph() { var popurl="image/20060430/29-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=320,height=300,scrollbars=yes") } Maharashtra has spent over Rs 10,824 crore on its egs programme from 1975 to 2005, covering 27,831 gram panchayats in its 33 districts. This means on an average, Rs 39 lakh (Rs 3,888,786) has been spent on each gram panchayat. Starting at Rs …
The Employment Guarantee Scheme (egs) is supported by the Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Act (mega), 1977 that provides a legal guarantee (and not mere assurance) for work to its rural population all throughout the year. As per the act, any person above 18 years of age in rural Maharashtra (and class …
The concept of creating employment in public works is not new for the rest of the country, because the Maharashtra model of rural employment has existed since the 1970s. The most critical difference now is that people's entitlement, by law, to employment, is now mandated through nrega for the entire …
the National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill (nregb) 2004 passed by Parliament in August 2005, makes India the only developing country to have legislation ensuring livelihood. Once it is notified, an Employment Guarantee Scheme (egs) will come into being under which one person in each rural household will be assured employment …
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do …
sonia's take: While the Centre plans to move the National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill in the current session of Parliament, Congress president Sonia Gandhi recently suggested four amendments to it. She said employment should be guaranteed to anyone who offers to work for the prescribed wage, not merely to the …
