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. …
M.S. Swaminathan AGRICULTURE IS not just a food producing machine in our country but is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 70 crores of our population. A majority of them are below the age of 35. The future of our agriculture and rural livelihoods will depend upon …
MANOJ ANAND July 1: If the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) earned political benefits for the Congress in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, its government in Assam was at the receiving end for alleged rampant corruption in implementing the act in the state. Regretting the alleged casual approach of …
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: The 2009-10 budget could see the integration of agricultural activities and rural development schemes not only because they helped to prevent the global slowdown from hitting the rural economy but also because the two sectors appear more likely to lift the country out of the rut. …
Saubhadro Chatterji / New Delhi July 1, 2009, 0:27 IST The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which is believed to have earned political benefits for the Congress in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, will be modified to plug the loopholes and make the officials more accountable. A draft amendment …
New Delhi: If the national job guarantee law was the flagship scheme of the first UPA, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has, in her first letter to re-elected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, asked him to fulfil the party
The Kerala Government is revising the list of below-the-poverty line (BPL) families in the State, which will be published in July, according to the Minister for Local Administration, Mr Paloli Mohammed Kutty. Replying to questions in the State Assembly on Tuesday, the Minister said that the enumeration work was on …
MUKESH RANJAN June 22: In a bid to ensure effective outreach of banking system in rural India and adequately help the Centre properly transfer huge volumes of fund to poor masses under Nrega and other social sector programmes, the government is likely to make provisions in the upcoming Budget for …
It may be recalled that Rajasthan was a top NREGA performer in terms of implementation of the scheme for three consecutive years during the previous BJP government During the current financial year, the state government would receive Rs 9,525 crore, highest among the states, and has fixed a target of …
The onus is on the Congress government in Rajasthan to make NREGA leak-proof, as the Union minister was a major critic of implementation of the scheme under the BJP dispensation--- DR C P JOSHI, now Union minister for rural development and panchayat raj institutions, which is the administrative ministry for …
KAILASHAHAR, June 17: Tripura tea gardens are facing a shortage of labour with the expansion of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) scheme in all four districts, thus absorbing about 20-22 per cent tea workers. General Manager of Laxmi Tea Co Ltd of the Tripura Group of Gardens J C …
Hyderabad, June 17: A writ petition was filed in the AP High Court on Wednesday seeking a direction to declare a notification issued by the Centre fixing Rs 80 as minimum wage per day under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme illegal. AP Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union represented by Mr P.S. …
MUKESH RANJAN Encouraged by the rich political dividend it reaped in the recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections from the social sector initiatives in the previous tenure, the UPA government is now trying to re-draw the flagship employment guarantee scheme under the NREGA by converging the entire gamut of
NARAYAN BARETH FAGI, JAIPUR This was a rathyatra with a difference. The rathyatra moved from one village to another and covered 22 poverty-stricken villages of Jaipur district. It raised the voice of widows, oldage and disabled people while made people aware about the several welfare schemes launched by the government. …
As World Environment Day falls on June 5, Soni Sinha looks at how 70 per cent of work under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act can actually be eco-friendly and benefit local communities in India's poorest districts C K Prahalad states in his corporate management book The Bottom of the …
