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. …
state empowered to control scheme NEW DELHI, 17 MARCH: To keep control over its flagship scheme ~ the much-hyped Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) ~ and to defeat its non-Congress regimes in various states, the Centre has given itself powers to check releasing funds due to ineffective …
The Supreme Court has warned it may step in if the Union government does not do anything to stop the alleged misappropriation of funds meant for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) in Orissa. A bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia asked the Centre to …
Call it the fallout of seven years of severe drought or government inaction, a silent revolution is brewing in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Communities are getting united and digging channels to bring water from government canals to their fields. Some are volunteering labour, while those belonging to Scheduled castes …
March 6: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) is bringing about a silent revolution in rural areas in this drought-prone district. The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, inaugurated the programme in a remote village, Bandlapalli, in Anantapur district on February 2, 2006. Since then, the scheme has …
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan & National Rural Health Mission have got an increase of 24% and 20 %, respectively, in their allocations for 2011-12 The unspent funds in government
Employment is a “soft” subject compared to labour standards – the hard core of the International Labour Organisation’s mandate and agenda. The contribution that the agency can make to a member country regarding employment generally takes the form of assistance in developing approaches, strategies and programmes, rather than direct action. …
The State of Food and Agriculture 2011 launched by FAO presents comprehensive data and analysis on the critical role women play in agriculture & makes strong business case for investing in women. Women make significant contributions to the rural economy in all developing country regions. Their roles differ across regions, …
The increase in the wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) that came into effect in the district a few days ago has evoked varied response n the district. The workers covered under the purview of the scheme now would be drawing wages at Rs. 119 …
Public employment created by non-NREGA public works may just be giving more bang for the buck than NREGA, around a fourth more going by the findings of the NSS survey on employment in 2007-08. In which case, the finance minister would do well to keep the spending for NREGA under …
The plan panel, however, has asked the Bihar government to speed up power sector reform in the state during the current financial year itself Intending to give fillip to the efforts made by the state government, the planning commission on Tuesday agreed to give a substantial 20 percent hike to …
Rural Development and Panchayat Raj minister Jagadish Shettar said the State Government has taken strict measures for effective implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The department suspended 337 officers on charges of dereliction of duty while implementing the scheme and also seized about 12 lakh fake job …
A Central team which found glaring examples of MGNREGA violations in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, has asked the state administration to conduct a detailed probe in all the worksites in the district. The financial misappropriation in this case could be to the tune of several hundred crores of rupees, according to …
The revised daily wage for NREGS workers is still lower than the minimum wages paid in several States. A CONTROVERSY seems to have surfaced between the Prime Minister's Office and the National Advisory Council (NAC) on the issue of wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). …
