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. …
The implementation of the Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project has increased the average income of families under the project area by a significant nine per cent. Stating this while interacting with a delegation of the World Bank Mission, led by Norman Piccioni, here yesterday, Forest Minister Thakur Singh Bharmouri said there …
The Comptroller and Auditor-General has found serious lapses in implementation of the UPA’s flagship programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. In its second performance audit submitted to Parliament on Tuesday, the CAG said employment under the MGNREGS declined, funds were being diverted for other use and possible …
The performance audit report of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has shown significant decline in per rural household employment generation in the last two years. The per rural household employment has declined from 54 days in 2009-10 to 43 days in 2011-12, the CAG audit report …
This second performance audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act by CAG covering the period from April 2007 to March 2012 was tabled in the Parliament recently. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has found a number of flaws in implementation of the government’s flagship …
An analysis of usage of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) programme in 156 of the assembly constituencies in Karnataka, which is headed for elections next month, has revealed a continuous decline over the last three years on several parameters, such as average expenditure per …
Funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) are now being put to a strange use - building walls around government forests! In a letter addressed to chief ministers of states, Tribal Affairs Minister KC Deo has lamented the development saying it’s ironic how MNREGA funds were …
GUWAHATI, April 11: The main objectives of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) are rural development and employment. But so far as Assam is concerned, these objectives have hardly been achieved. Out of the households given job cards under MGNREGA in Assam, only few got 100 days work …
This is the revised draft convergence guidelines between MGNREGA and Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) of Department of Land Resources (DOLR). A Joint convergence guideline was issued by Department of Rural Development and Department of Land Resources vide letter No. J-11019/2/2008 dated 29th May, 2009. The areas of convergence and …
The annual plan of the state for 2013-14 has been finalised at Rs 4,100 crore, which is Rs 400 crore more than the last year’s plan. The plan was given its final shape during a meeting between Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, at …
Agartala: Left-ruled Tripura provided 86.27 days of work under the central government’s flagship rural jobs scheme in fiscal 2012-13, the highest in the country, a minister said here Tuesday. Quoting the performance report of the union rural development ministry, state Rural Development Minister Jitendra Chaudhury told reporters that Tripura has …
New Delhi: Direct transfer of benefits in cash to targeted beneficiaries of food and fertilizer subsidies could save an estimated Rs 60,000 crore and help trim the fiscal deficit which, in turn, may calm stubbornly high food inflation, a study by a government wing has shown. The study showed that …
Brazil, China, and India are the emerging players in world agricultural markets whose actions will have a sizable impact on future food security according to this annual review of the major food policy developments and trends published by IFPRI. This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an …
Work on underpasses to create long-term assets The UPA government's flagship social sector programme — the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) — will now be able to create permanent infrastructure assets, giving the seven-year-old scheme providing livelihood to almost 5 crore families annually an altogether new direction. The rural …
The government in its Budget has largely maintained its social sector spending at the same level. The allocation to the Ministry of Rural Development that runs flagship schemes like MGNREGS has gone up marginally by 5 per cent from Rs 76,376 crore to Rs 80,194 crore for 2013-14. While the …
Notwithstanding marginal growth in employment, there were as many as 28 million unemployed persons in the country in 2009-10, according to the Economic Survey 2012-13. “Despite negligible employment growth, the unemployment rate as per the current daily status (CDS method) fell from 8.2 per cent in 2004-5 to 6.6 per …
Madam Speaker, I rise to present before this august House the Revised Estimates for 2012-13 and a statement of estimated receipts and expenditure for 2013-14. I do so with mixed feelings crossing my mind. While I have a feeling of a colossus today, it is only ephemeral and is instantaneously …
BAHRAICH:As many as 63,000 toilets would be constructed under BharatNirmalAbhiyan in Devipatan division. An amount of Rs 18 crore has been received by the division for the project and construction of each toilet would cost Rs 10,000. Villages under 'SamagraNirmal' schemes and those affected with Japanese encephalitis would be given …
Jharkhand has ranked third among all states in implementation of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and delivery of services and monitoring. Mridula Sinha, principal secretary, state social welfare department, said the most important part of the whole process was monitoring the 40,000 anganwadi centres. Progress was reviewed during frequent …
The govt will take steps to reduce its shortcomings through the tools of modern communication and information, says Sonia Gandhi Congress President Sonia Gandhi today strongly pitched for utilising MNREGA to increase agricultural production, saying the flagship scheme can play a big role to usher in second green revolution in …
The Ministry of Rural Development, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Mahatma Gandhi NREGA) aims at enhancing livelihood security of households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer …
