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. …
Gangtok, Feb 4: Sikkim has become the only state to bag national award in all three categories for exemplary work done under MG-NREGA during the recent Mahatma Gandhi NREGA Sammelan in New Delhi. The sammelan was held to commemorate the completion of the fifth year of the commencement of this …
The papers in the special issue on Rammanohar Lohia (EPW, 2 October 2010) did not dwell on the socialist leader’s thinking on local governance and local development, ideas which continue to be relevant today for rural development.
This document discusses the status of Panchayats and approach to roadmap, strengthening democratic functioning of the Panchayats, functions of the Panchayats, functionaries of the Panchayats, Panchayat finances and accounting, e-Panchayat, Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled areas) Act, decentralized governance in the north east states, legal framework & the road ahead.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said workers employed under the government's flagship rural jobs scheme, Mahatma Gandhi NREGA, would get higher wages to offset inflation. "We have decided to hike the wages as per the rise in consumer price index. This will raise the wages by 17 to 30 percent," …
Jaipur: Five years after it came into being, hundreds of NGOs and activists would come together to recount the success and failure of MGNREGA at Udyog Maidan near Statue Circle on Wednesday. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act had come into effect on February 2, 2006. According to …
Rural Development Ministry In Consultation With CAG To Remove Lacuna From Scheme THE Manmohan Singh government has moved in to restore the role of civil society groups in conducting the social audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in an attempt to weed out corruption from various …
Orissa's first community radio station, Radio Namaskar, is making its voice heard, loud and clear. This feisty radio station launched from Konark in Puri district seven months ago, has become a real life hero for villages living in its 10 km radius.
Through an inclusive approach taken by the local government, MGNREGA in Naxal affected Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh has created wage employment and integrated the promotion of a gamut of other development interventions.
THE prices of persihables such as onions for which the retail consumer is paying 40 a kilo would come down to 22 in cities such as Delhi by this week, said KV Thomas, minister of state for consumer affairs, food and public distribution. He said a meeting was slated between …
Meghalaya Principal Secretary CD Kynjing today said the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) had brought about a change in the State with the participation of people in implementation of the scheme. Inaugurating a two-day
Quick action will be taken on petitions submitted by people at the grievances day meetings, and mass contact programmes, being conducted in the villages, said Collector T.K.Ponnusamy on Wednesday. Presiding over the mass contact programme meeting at Poyyadhanallur village in Ariyalur district, the Collector said that all the department officials …
Senior Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh, who took charge today as the Union rural development minister, said he would look into the controversy over delinking the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the government
The district-level vigilance meeting resolved to urge the Union Government to increase the amount under Indira Awas Yojana to Rs 75,000. The decision was taken at a meeting held under the presidentship of former Prime Minister and MP H D Deve Gowda. Both the MPs H D Deve Gowda and …
The new union rural development minister Vilasrao Deshmukh takes charge of the key ministry at a time when the mega Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 2005 completes mandated five years of implementation within next few weeks. Deshmukh would lead the rural development ministry which gets the largest …
A fortnight after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said wages paid under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) would not be linked with minimum wages, Minister of State for Labour Harish Rawat today said NREGA was a flawed law, as it went against the Minimum Wages Act. Rawat told Business …
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), a landmark legislation to improve the economic condition of rural mass of India through an assured 100 days of employment per household per year, was initially implemented in West Garo Hill and South Garo Hills districts of Meghalaya in 2006, with …
Adivasi Budakattu Janara Hakkugala Rashtriya Vedike urged the district administration to implement Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 effectively in the district. Speaking with mediapersons here on Wednesday, committee co-convener P R Bharath said the forest department should stop torturing the tribals residing …
The National Advisory Council's recommendations on the National Food Security Bill are in danger of being brushed aside. It is the fate of most advisory committees that the government accepts whatever advice suits its purposes and ignores the rest. The first version of the National Advisory Council (NAC-1) managed to …
