India's unemployment rate is likely to decline by as much as 97 basis points by 2028 as the country's economy hits the USD 5 trillion mark, fuelling a rise in employment, a new report said. Unemployment rate -- the percentage of people in the labour force who are without jobs …
Non-government activists Aruna Roy and Jean Dreze, who are widely regarded as architects of the National Rural Employment Guarantees Programme (NREGP), today boycotted its fourth anniversary celebrations at Vigyan Bhavan as a protest against the manner in which the programme had been implemented. The function to commemorate one of the …
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
They are educated and industrious youths leading a generation living in an economically tough world, who have stepped forward to steer in a green revolution in greater Puthimari area. It needs to be mentioned that at a time when lakhs of youths have been reeling under the burning unemployment problems …
NREGS has a strong rights-based perspective. The facilitation of the basic right of a decent job which requires complementary social supports such as insurance, gender equity, child care, financial literacy, awareness building, etc., is critical to it. The setting up of social supports and enhancing the efficiency of delivery, all …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been devised as a public works programme to address the issue of a rights-based approach to development; provide income security to the rural households through guaranteed wage employment; reduce/check distress migration from rural to urban areas; and create durable community assets (in …
PHULBANI: Kandhamal district, prone to riots, would soon be home to thousands of butterflies if the district administration has its way. Plans are afoot to set up an open butterfly garden in Kandhamal. As the butterflies are fond of flowers that produce lots of pollen and nectar it has been …
Ranchi, Jan. 29: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has sanctioned a fresh loan to the state government for installing irrigation facilities and generating employment opportunities in rural areas through construction of check dams and forestry development schemes. With this fresh loan of Rs 47.94 crore, Nabard has …
JORHAT, Jan 28: The State Government of Assam has allotted Rs 1,361 crore in 2009-10 year for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes (NREGS), said Assam Education Minister Gautom Bora participating the Republic Day celebration programme in Jorhat. Bora also said that, the Panchayat and Rural Development Department has increased …
TIRUCHI: The Vigilance and Monitoring Committee formed to monitor implementation of Central government schemes will recommend to the Union government that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) should be implemented during the non-agricultural season in Tiruchi district, D. Napoleon, Union Minister of State for Social Justice and …
Patna: The Centre has released only 20 per cent of the fund meant for taking up schemes under NREGA in Bihar till January 25 this year and the State has requested for Rs.1760.75 crore under the head, its Minister for rural development Shri Bhagawan Singh said on Thursday.
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Despite rural development minister C.P. Joshi writing to all the MPs, the number of district-level vigilance and monitoring committee meetings held for Mahatma Gandhi NREGA is very low. The MPs head the districtlevel vigilance and monitoring committees, which were constituted afresh in September 2009 after UPA II came …
Sharmistha Mukherjee / New Delhi January 27, 2010, 0:14 IST The railway ministry is working on a proposal with the Ministry of Rural Development to jointly fund key railway projects by utilising the government
MUKESH RANJAN Sources in the commission pointed out that the MGNREGA is unlikely to get any increase in budgetary support n a major move to unshackle UPA's ambitious schemes under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) from huge regional variations in the level of implementation and also the …
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: The Centre has decided to go ahead with the controversial proposal of constructing Rajiv Gandhi Sewa Kendras at the panchayat level at a cost of Rs.10 lakh each from funds meant for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mgnregs). Notwithstanding the opposition against the …
Sarikah Atreya The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) Sikkim regional office has recommended to the State Government to enhance its infrastructure investments to support capital formation in sectors that support the twin objectives
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Targeting the Leftruled West Bengal government for misuse of NREGA funds, minister of state for rural development Sisir Kumar Adhikari has asked Cabinet minister C.P. Joshi to look into the matter. Sources said several instances of misuse of lakhs of rupees under NREGA funds have come to notice, …
Saubhadro Chatterji / New Delhi January 19, 2010, 0:42 IST After the infrastructure sector, the public-private partnership (PPP) model will be extended to rural job generation as well. The initial success of the flagship National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) has prompted the rural development ministry to seek a four-fold increase …
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today accepted the demand of state MLAs to include protection of crops from wild animals by employing rakhas (guards) under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Winding up his two-day meeting with MLAs on budget priorities for 2010-11, Dhumal also assured a …
