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. …
New Delhi: Zafar Naqvi is a most unlikely MP, from Kheri (UP). The Congress had no plans to contest there. But a neighbouring contestant pushed the party to give him a ticket. Naqvi promptly triumphed over strong contenders from the SP and BSP, leaving even Congress leaders rubbing their eyes. …
BARPETA: Though the Government has initiated a number of development and employment-generating projects, yet due to the lack of commitment and indefferent attitude of a section of officers and politicians, a large number of such projects undertaken in Barpeta district have either been abandoned or are laying half done. The …
New Delhi: The government is in no mood to pare the wage rates under its flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme despite the strain on the exchequer, due to substantial hikes in minimum wages by states during the last two years and concerns that higher wage rates led to ineffective …
New Delhi: A new study on evaluating the performance of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the flagship programme of the UPA government, has recommended that the wage rate offered to workers under the scheme should be cut by up to a fifth to ensure effective targeting. It has, however, …
DIBRUGARH, May 12: Six Panchayats under Tengakhat Development received twenty-six lakh sixty four thousand rupees under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) scheme. The money will be spent in the implementation of eight government schemes in the area. Meanwhile, work on the houses of nine hundred and seven beneficiaries …
Performance, promises and prospects: A comparison of the election manifestos of the Congress, the BJP and the CPI(M). THE election manifestos of the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) make interesting reading, both individually and in mutual comparison (see pages 131 to 134). …
This study by PIF and NCAER puts together evidences on implementation of NREGA and its achievements so far. Says that the scheme has worked well but the level of satisfaction has been only 50 percent and suggests that it should be implemented as a state scheme mandated under a Central …
This note details proposals for making NREGA work better and suggests that REGS must be implemented by states not as a central Scheme but as a state scheme mandated under a central act. NREGA has a very laudable objective: to enhance livelihood security in rural areas through guaranteed 100 days
Mihir Shah The concepts of multiplier and accelerator borrowed from macroeconomic theory illuminate the enormous potential of NREGA and help set standards that it must be judged by. Over the last few months, just as the economy entered its current recessionary phase, the mainstream media, which till then had been …
Chief Justice of India Justice KG Balakrishnan today said that onus is on the Government, administration, volunteers and the non-government organisations (NGOs) to effectively implement the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 2005 in the North-east, which would go a long way in improving the condition of the rural population …
LUCKNOW: Holding Congress, BJP and their supporting parties responsible for increasing inflation, backwardness and poverty in the country, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and chief minister Mayawati said that even after 61 years of the independence, there had been no perceptible change in the socio-economic conditions of the SC/ST …
NEW DELHI: Will the BJP abolish the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) if it comes to power? This question came from the Congress on Thursday. Pointing out that the BJP had described the NREGA as a
Shimla: Alarmed over the depletion of water sources due to declining snow and rain, the government has decided to focus on water conservation projects under the national rural employment guarantee (NREGA) scheme, particularly in the water stressed areas of the state. Discharge in the surface water sources has been dwindling …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), notified on September 7, 2005, marked a paradigm shift from the previous waste employment programmes with its rights-based approach that makes the Government legally accountable for providing employment to those who demand it. Convergence is an evolving process and while broad principles can …
ARUNDHATI DHURU & SANDEEP PANDEY While the RTI Act and the audit provisions of NREGA enable ordinary people to demand accountability from governments, it doesn
