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. …
Subhomoy Bhattacharjee New Delhi: For the first time ever each landless worker employed under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) will find positive movements in the share market indices something to croon over. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has introduced an expenditure category in Budget 2010-11 that makes the link …
The district human development report of North 24 Parganas portrays the diverse features of this district and also depicts the multilayered development that has taken place, over the past five to six decades. Burgeoning urbanisation and very presence of the Sunderbans open up a rare opportunity to the policy makers …
UNDER the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), an adult member of every rural household in India has the right to demand a minimum of 100 days of work in a year. In Kerala, the scheme
AMIT AGNIHOTRI The UPA government is planning to provide jobs to over 2.5 lakh youth by appointing Lok Karmis in each Gram Panchayat to facilitate the implementation of its flagship MGNREGA. Besides being an interface between the workers and the various government agencies like the panchayats, banks and post offices, …
Forget those images of ravaged villagers, kids with distended bellies and ragged clothes and a future as grim as the cracked, sun-baked earth. Islands of poverty still exist but most of rural India is transformed beyond imagination thanks to a host of factors which has put unprecedented wealth into the …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government has appointed standing committees at the panchayat level in the middle of the current panchayat elections in the State to ensure smooth and effective implementation of schemes under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and entrusted important responsibilities to them. According to State Principal Rural …
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: The Centre has set in motion the process to appoint Lok Karmis and Lok Sevaks for the proper implementation of Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment guarantee Act (MGREGA). In view of disparities in rural social structures and inequalities in functional capabilities of the poor and marginalised sections …
Amritsar: Amid drizzle, farmers of the region, under the tutelage of the Kisan Sangharsh Committee (KSC), held a protest in front of the Canal Office here today. They were protesting against the government for imposing irrigation fee and its inability in providing irrigation water from canals to their cultivable land …
BARIPADA: Mayurbhanj, predominantly inhabited by tribals, has bagged Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guaratee Act (MGNREGA) excellence award for 2008-09. The district has scripted a success story in the implementation of various schemes taken up in the district under the MGNREGA in 2008-09. Sources said Mayurbhanj and Ganjam districts have …
THE government is likely to introduce biometrics cards and electronic attendance systems from next fiscal to plug the leakages in its flagship employment scheme NREGA, even as it looks to step up allocation for the scheme sharply to Rs 45,000 crore. We are looking at biometrics job card system from …
AGARTALA, Feb 5: Performance of Left Front Government in implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has emerged better in comparison with two other Left-ruled States West Bengal and Kerala, Rural Development Ministry
AMIT AGNIHOTRI UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi expressed concern on the implementation of government's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) on its fourth anniversary and said loopholes in the law need to be addressed with a sharper focus. "We can't be satisfied with our success. There are problems …
Ravish Tiwari, Manoj CG New Delhi: While the Left parties often claim that the Congress returned to power benefiting from schemes like the NREGA which came about because of the Left parties
While the Left parties often claim that the Congress returned to power benefiting from schemes like the NREGA which came about because of its sustained pressure, figures show that CPM-led governments failed to push through the rural job guarantee programme in West Bengal and Kerala. Statistics compiled by the Central …
When Gadchiroli Collector Atul Patne and his predecessor Niranjankumar Sudhanshu accept a special medal from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tomorrow in New Delhi for their NREGA performance, they will rebut a widely held belief that good government work can't be done in Naxal-affected areas, a belief that's often used as …
Siyaram singa padvi, a poor tribal of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra, has managed to get two government officials fined. The officers with the public works department had delayed giving information sought by Padvi under the Right to Information (rti) Act. On December 24, Maharashtra state information commissioner (sic), S V …
