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. …
Priyadarshi Siddhanta New Delhi: Arguing that the proposed food security act will not be a cakewalk like the much-hyped NREGA, the Planning Commission today expressed the need for fixing responsibility in case of failure in implementing the law. It made out a case for involving the panchayats in the task …
Jean Dreze Khunti: In what is seen as a victory for workers under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act here in Jharkhand who had faced hardships because of delayed payment of compensation, as many as 174 of them from 10 villages of Khunti and Murhu blocks have received Rs. 2,000 …
There is a strong nexus among overutilization of groundwater, subsidized power utility, marketing, minimum support price and procurement policies. Improving competitiveness of water-guzzling crops in the groundwater surplus eastern India and less water-requiring commodities in overexploited northwest and south India through technology, marketing, incentives and disincentive interventions could rationalize the …
Ranchi, June 8: Giridih showed the way. Khunti is following suit. Within a week of deputy commissioner Vandana Dadel freezing the salary of 500 Giridih officials for tardy progress of projects under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), her Khunti counterpart, Puja Singhal Purwar, today showcaused 11, including six …
The World Bank today praised the UPA government's National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGA) saying people can fall back on the scheme "in these hard times." "India is fortunate to have in place a (NREGA) program that people can fall back on to find work in these hard times", World …
Himachal Pradesh has been adjudged the top state as regard the implementation of the 20-point programme in the country from April, 2008, to January, 2009. A communication of the Government of India in this regard was received by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal here today. It said the state had …
Indigenous peoples worldwide lead sustainable livelihoods that contribute to the sequestration of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and cause the least amount of damage to the environment. Adivasi Women
The successful implementation of NREGA and the Right to Information Act indicates that the climate is conducive for a far-reaching, rights-based legislation to eliminate hunger and deprivation. In its latest election manifesto the Congress pledged to
ASIT JOLLY CHANDIGARH For the second time in succession, farmers in Punjab are in panic with hardly any migrant workers from Bihar or Uttar Pradesh available less than a fortnight before the paddy sowing season due to begin June 10. While the state
India has started a pilot project to quantify climate benefits from a massive anti-poverty scheme that could become one of the country's main weapons to fight criticism it is not doing enough to tackle global warming. The flagship anti-poverty plan, started three years ago, provides 100 days of employment every …
On 22 May 2008, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, speaking on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, said,
Manmohan Singh By the time you read this, some of the jostling for the key positions in the Cabinet will be over. The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will be ready to begin its second innings. And everyone will be keenly watching if Manmohan Singh unveils any big bang steps to
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (NREGA) guarantees 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to any rural household whose adult members are willing to participate in unskilled manual work The Act is an important step towards realization of the right to work and aims at arresting …
This time, with reinforced backing, he needs to send out the right signals and take the right decisions The lawns of the All India Congress Committee (aicc) office on 24 March bristled with business-like activity from the early hours of the day. Workers were busy setting up a pandal and …
Mihir Shah Respect for Verdict 2009 obligates comprehensive rural governance reform. Complex outcomes demand participatory processes and imaginative solutions. A hitherto dismissive Indian media have gone characteristically overboard in ascribing Verdict 2009 to initiatives such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. The verdict affords a more nuanced reading. While …
