-PTI Mumbai: The Maharashtra Anganwadi Sevika Union has alleged that the state government has not paid salaries of its workers for the last four months. "For last four months, we have not been paid our salaries. We met Rural Development Minister Pankaja Munde and Finance Minister Mungantiwar several times. But they say the government has no money to pay our dues," Anganwadi Sevika Union general secretary Kamal Parulekar alleged. If Ms Munde can...
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₹1-lakh cr to be disbursed under MUDRA for micro-entrepreneurs -Shishir Sinha
-The Hindu Business Line Finance Minister meets bankers to set targets To promote very small businesses, the Centre aims to facilitate credit up to ₹1 lakh crore under the MUDRA scheme in the current fiscal. According to a senior government official, the credit facility issue was discussed at a meeting between the Finance Minister and bankers recently. It was proposed that for the current fiscal, the target under ‘Shishu’ category would be ₹40,000 crore,...
More »Drought factor forces NDA government to rethink on MGNREGA -Ruhi Tewari
-The Indian Express The average days of employment provided per household, too, fell to 40.01 from 45.97 in 2013-14 and 46.20 in 2012-13. From Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public barbs against its being a “living proof” of 60 years of Congress misrule, to a proposal now for extending the annual work entitlement to 150 days in drought-affected areas, the BJP-led government’s disposition towards the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA)...
More »Centre increases number of work days under MGNREGA -Ruhi Tewari
-The Indian Express The central government will increase the number of workdays under the rural job guarantee scheme from 100 to 150 in drought-affected areas, said sources. The NDA government is all set to increase the number of workdays under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) — a flagship scheme of the UPA government it had openly criticised earlier — in areas which may be affected by the...
More »NREGS workdays might be increased to 150 to fight drought -Arup Roychoudhury
-Business Standard Interest subvention, crop insurance on the cards The finance ministry is working on a plan to increase the number of workdays in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) from 100 a year per person per household to 150 in areas receiving low monsoon rain. The government might also provide interest subvention and crop insurance in drought-affected regions through the e-Financial Management System (eFMS). “Since the eFMS contains the data...
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