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 government has finally notified the draft rules empowering the Comptroller and Auditor General of India to audit the flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Under the rules, the director, local fund audit or a chartered accountant empanelled with the CAG, shall audit the schemes under the MGNREGA. …
Reetika Khera in "The UID Project and Welfare Schemes" has opened a new debate on the promise of the project of providing each Indian citizen a unique identification (UID) card. Specifically she takes issue with the claim that the UID will facilitate the implementation of welfare schemes.
Down To Earth finds out how once-parched and barren district of Rajasthan, Barmer now sees development all around, thanks to the flood and rains. A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and flood in 2006.
Concerned over the performance of UPA flagship MGNREGA in the northeastern states, the government will review implementation of the rural job plan on April 19 in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh. According to data available with the rural development ministry, in 2010-11, the monthly information system (MIS) indicating performance of the rural …
Once-parched and barren Barmer is turning over a new leaf. About five years ago, Poona Ram, 45, shifted from this desert district of Rajasthan to Gujarat in search of work. He was unable to support his family at a place that could not give him employment. But Poona Ram returned. …
Deputy chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Tuesday assured adequate funding from the Centre to end water scarcity in Rajasthan, particularly in the border districts including Jaisalmer and Barmer. Ahluwalia along with Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot was on a daylong visit to the water project sites …
Mohali has badly failed to reap the benefits of various welfare schemes sponsored and funded by the Union government, if the performance during last financial year 2010-11 is any indication. One of the Centre
Reacting to a report published in The Hindu, which told the story of illegal employment of children and their plight in the coal mines of Hazaribagh district, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to Jharkhand Chief Secretary Ashok Kumar Singh seeking a report within four weeks on …
In order to get a deeper understanding of the problems in the rain-fed areas, the NAC on natural resources management would soon hold consultations with the rural development ministry, states and NGOs Concerned over asset creation under the flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the Sonia Gandhi-led …
Of the 37 lakh (approx) job card holders under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) in Assam, only 16,473 job card holders could get 100 days employment in the year 2010-11, taking the coverage rate of the UPA Government flagship scheme to a meagre 0.56 per cent during the …
More than 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by violent conflict. The World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security, and Development examines the changing nature of violence in the 21st century, and underlines the negative impact of repeated cycles of violence on a country or region’s development prospects. Preventing violence …
Under the Tsunami Rehabilitation Programme supported by the KSCSTE, KFRI planted Casuarina and other tree species in a strip of 32 km length along the coastal areas of Thrissur District to establish a bio-shield.
This report seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the processes of implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Karnataka and recommend specific steps that could improve these processes. The issues that arise relate to the processes involved in the worker seeking work, the process of providing …
State governments will have to abide by stricter rules to receive money from the centre for the rural employment scheme in the next financial year 2011-12. The centrally sponsored Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) has been one of the biggest drivers of rural consumption in the country. …
The following draft of certain rules which the Central Government, in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by the sub-section (1) of section 24 of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (Central Act 42 of …
