Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f34ee93102f-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f34ee93102f-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f34ee93102f-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 3482,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&amp;rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&amp;rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The duo &amp;mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&amp;rsquo;s implementation &amp;mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&amp;rdquo; the letter says.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &amp;ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &amp;ldquo;resisting accountability&amp;rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &amp;ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; the letter said. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 28 September, 2010, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100928/jsp/nation/story_12990989.jsp&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 3571,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 3482,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;NREGS&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;




Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.

The problem adds to the list...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&amp;rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&amp;rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The duo &amp;mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&amp;rsquo;s implementation &amp;mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&amp;rdquo; the letter says.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &amp;ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &amp;ldquo;resisting accountability&amp;rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &amp;ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; the letter said. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 3482,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&amp;rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&amp;rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The duo &amp;mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&amp;rsquo;s implementation &amp;mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&amp;rdquo; the letter says.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &amp;ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &amp;ldquo;resisting accountability&amp;rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &amp;ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; the letter said. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 28 September, 2010, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100928/jsp/nation/story_12990989.jsp&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 3571,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 3482
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;NREGS&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;




Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.

The problem adds to the list...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;font &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&amp;rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&amp;rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The duo &amp;mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&amp;rsquo;s implementation &amp;mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&amp;rdquo; the letter says.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &amp;ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &amp;ldquo;resisting accountability&amp;rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &amp;ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; the letter said. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="




Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.

The problem adds to the list..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <font ><br /></font><div align="justify"><br /><br /><font >Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.</font><br /><br /><font >The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.</font><br /><br /><font >According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.</font><br /><br /><font >The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.</font><br /><br /><font >Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.</font><br /><br /><font >Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.</font><br /><br /><font >The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.</font><br /><br /><font >The duo &mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&rsquo;s implementation &mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.</font><br /><br /><font >&ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&rdquo; the letter says.</font><br /><br /><font >Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&rdquo;</font><br /><br /><font >The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &ldquo;resisting accountability&rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.</font><br /><br /><font >Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&rsquo;&rsquo; the letter said. </font><br /><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f34ee93102f-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f34ee93102f-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f34ee93102f-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 3482,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&amp;rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&amp;rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The duo &amp;mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&amp;rsquo;s implementation &amp;mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&amp;rdquo; the letter says.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &amp;ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &amp;ldquo;resisting accountability&amp;rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &amp;ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; the letter said. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 28 September, 2010, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100928/jsp/nation/story_12990989.jsp&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 3571,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 3482,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;NREGS&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;




Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.

The problem adds to the list...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&amp;rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&amp;rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The duo &amp;mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&amp;rsquo;s implementation &amp;mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&amp;rdquo; the letter says.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &amp;ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &amp;ldquo;resisting accountability&amp;rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &amp;ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; the letter said. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 3482,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&amp;rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&amp;rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The duo &amp;mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&amp;rsquo;s implementation &amp;mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&amp;rdquo; the letter says.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &amp;ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &amp;ldquo;resisting accountability&amp;rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &amp;ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; the letter said. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 28 September, 2010, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100928/jsp/nation/story_12990989.jsp&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 3571,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 3482
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;NREGS&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;




Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.

The problem adds to the list...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;font &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&amp;rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&amp;rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The duo &amp;mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&amp;rsquo;s implementation &amp;mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&amp;rdquo; the letter says.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &amp;ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &amp;ldquo;resisting accountability&amp;rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &amp;ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; the letter said. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="




Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.

The problem adds to the list..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <font ><br /></font><div align="justify"><br /><br /><font >Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.</font><br /><br /><font >The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.</font><br /><br /><font >According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.</font><br /><br /><font >The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.</font><br /><br /><font >Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.</font><br /><br /><font >Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.</font><br /><br /><font >The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.</font><br /><br /><font >The duo &mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&rsquo;s implementation &mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.</font><br /><br /><font >&ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&rdquo; the letter says.</font><br /><br /><font >Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&rdquo;</font><br /><br /><font >The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &ldquo;resisting accountability&rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.</font><br /><br /><font >Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&rsquo;&rsquo; the letter said. </font><br /><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f34ee93102f-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f34ee93102f-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f34ee93102f-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f34ee93102f-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 3482,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&amp;rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&amp;rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The duo &amp;mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&amp;rsquo;s implementation &amp;mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&amp;rdquo; the letter says.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &amp;ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &amp;ldquo;resisting accountability&amp;rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &amp;ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; the letter said. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 28 September, 2010, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100928/jsp/nation/story_12990989.jsp&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 3571,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 3482,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;NREGS&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;




Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.

The problem adds to the list...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&amp;rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&amp;rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The duo &amp;mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&amp;rsquo;s implementation &amp;mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&amp;rdquo; the letter says.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &amp;ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &amp;ldquo;resisting accountability&amp;rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &amp;ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; the letter said. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 3482,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&amp;rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&amp;rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The duo &amp;mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&amp;rsquo;s implementation &amp;mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&amp;rdquo; the letter says.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &amp;ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &amp;ldquo;resisting accountability&amp;rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &amp;ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; the letter said. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 28 September, 2010, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100928/jsp/nation/story_12990989.jsp&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 3571,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 3482
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;NREGS&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;




Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.

The problem adds to the list...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;font &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&amp;rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&amp;rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The duo &amp;mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&amp;rsquo;s implementation &amp;mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&amp;rdquo; the letter says.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &amp;ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &amp;ldquo;resisting accountability&amp;rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &amp;ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; the letter said. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="




Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.

The problem adds to the list..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <font ><br /></font><div align="justify"><br /><br /><font >Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.</font><br /><br /><font >The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.</font><br /><br /><font >According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.</font><br /><br /><font >The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.</font><br /><br /><font >Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.</font><br /><br /><font >Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.</font><br /><br /><font >The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.</font><br /><br /><font >The duo &mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&rsquo;s implementation &mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.</font><br /><br /><font >&ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&rdquo; the letter says.</font><br /><br /><font >Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&rdquo;</font><br /><br /><font >The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &ldquo;resisting accountability&rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.</font><br /><br /><font >Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&rsquo;&rsquo; the letter said. </font><br /><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 3482,
		'title' => 'States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><br />
</font>
<div align="justify">
<br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The duo &mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&rsquo;s implementation &mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&rdquo; the letter says.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&rdquo;</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &ldquo;resisting accountability&rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&rsquo;&rsquo; the letter said. </font><br />
<br />
</div>',
		'credit_writer' => 'The Telegraph, 28 September, 2010, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100928/jsp/nation/story_12990989.jsp',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 3571,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 3482,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful',
	'metaKeywords' => 'NREGS',
	'metaDesc' => '




Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.

The problem adds to the list...',
	'disp' => '<font ><br /></font><div align="justify"><br /><br /><font >Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.</font><br /><br /><font >The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.</font><br /><br /><font >According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.</font><br /><br /><font >The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.</font><br /><br /><font >Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.</font><br /><br /><font >Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.</font><br /><br /><font >The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.</font><br /><br /><font >The duo &mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&rsquo;s implementation &mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.</font><br /><br /><font >&ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&rdquo; the letter says.</font><br /><br /><font >Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&rdquo;</font><br /><br /><font >The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &ldquo;resisting accountability&rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.</font><br /><br /><font >Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&rsquo;&rsquo; the letter said. </font><br /><br /></div>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 3482,
	'title' => 'States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><br />
</font>
<div align="justify">
<br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The duo &mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&rsquo;s implementation &mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&rdquo; the letter says.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&rdquo;</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &ldquo;resisting accountability&rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&rsquo;&rsquo; the letter said. </font><br />
<br />
</div>',
	'credit_writer' => 'The Telegraph, 28 September, 2010, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100928/jsp/nation/story_12990989.jsp',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'states-fail-on-dole-for-jobless-unemployment-allowance-to-handful-3571',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 3571,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 3482
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful'
$metaKeywords = 'NREGS'
$metaDesc = '




Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.

The problem adds to the list...'
$disp = '<font ><br /></font><div align="justify"><br /><br /><font >Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless.</font><br /><br /><font >The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA&rsquo;s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme.</font><br /><br /><font >According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance.</font><br /><br /><font >The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it.</font><br /><br /><font >Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less.</font><br /><br /><font >Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year.</font><br /><br /><font >The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme&rsquo;s architects, at a news conference today.</font><br /><br /><font >The duo &mdash; members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan&rsquo;s implementation &mdash; have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability.</font><br /><br /><font >&ldquo;Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,&rdquo; the letter says.</font><br /><br /><font >Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. &ldquo;You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.&rdquo;</font><br /><br /><font >The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by &ldquo;resisting accountability&rdquo; in its implementation, the letter said.</font><br /><br /><font >Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. &ldquo;A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,&rsquo;&rsquo; the letter said. </font><br /><br /></div>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

States fail on dole for jobless-Unemployment allowance to handful

Only eight states have given the mandatory unemployment allowance to workers registered under the rural employment scheme over the past four years and even that for just a fraction of the time they went jobless. The problem adds to the list of complaints about the Congress-led UPA’s showpiece welfare programme. It has come to light in statistics collated by the Union rural development ministry, which runs the scheme. According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, if employment is not provided to a registered worker within 15 days of the receipt of the job application, the government must pay the daily unemployment allowance. The allowance is fixed by states, but it should not be less than a fourth of the wage for the first 30 days of unemployment and half of the sum beyond it. Left-ruled Kerala and Bengal are among the few states that have paid the dole, though the number of recipients is too less. Only nine persons have got the allowance in Bengal and one in Kerala. The figure for Tripura, also ruled by the Left, is 63. Seventy-eight persons have received it in Jharkhand, 543 in Orissa, 679 in Karnataka, 1,144 in Maharashtra and 1,074 in Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to employ four crore people each year. The problem was one of the many raised by Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, seen as one of the scheme’s architects, at a news conference today. The duo — members of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex body monitoring the plan’s implementation — have written to the ministry highlighting the lapses. They see the flaws as signs of the authorities trying to avoid accountability. “Non-payment of unemployment allowance is only one manifestation of the general resistance of both central and state governments to any sort of accountability under the NREGA, defeating the whole purpose of the act,” the letter says. Dreze and Roy turned the spotlight on another problem: delay in payment of wages. “You (the ministry) could equally have asked how many workers have ever been compensated for delays in wage payments. To my knowledge, there is only one case of such compensation (in Jharkhand), even though delays in wage payments have caused immense hardships to NREGA workers in the last two years. Similarly, there are only two cases of any government officer for dereliction of (NREGA-related) duty.” The UPA government has ruined its own achievement by “resisting accountability” in its implementation, the letter said. Dreze alleged that CEGC had been reduced to a body whose advice was ignored, and said he hoped to raise the problems at the NAC. “A series of measures are required if the gains made through NREGA are to be preserved,’’ the letter said.