The Rural Ministry of Government of India has written a letter to State Government in which it has been directed that corruption and criminal cases pertaining to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) should be investigated seriously and satisfactory action should be taken against the guilty officers. The Rural Ministry added that if this were not done then Centre would hand over these cases to CBI and take action...

About four years after its first survey on the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Orissa's hinterlands that showed large-scale defalcation of money, the Delhi-based NGO Centre for Environment and Food Security today in its second performance audit revealed that 67 per cent of very poor Dalit and tribal households in Orissa and UP did not get even a single day of the NREGS employment during previous...

The national level monitors of the Union ministry of rural development, probing irregularities into the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) received several complaints. These were with reference to the implementation of the scheme in the state, including misuse of funds by two ministers. The committee will tour different parts of the state to probe irregularities and receive complaints from aggrieved parties. While one team is in Hyderabad,...

The Guwahati high court, Imphal bench has issued a notice of motion returnable within four weeks in response to the writ petition filed by 14 Job card holders of Naoriya Pakhanglakpa Gram Panchayat for non payment of unemployment allowance despite the fact that the Ombudsman, MGNREGS, Imphal West district had issued an award in this regard. A statement issued by the Human Right Law Network (HRLN) in this connection said that...

The district administration on Friday acquainted block and panchayat employees with the provisions of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in a bid to curb unfair practices in the central project. The move has been taken by the administration after Union rural development secretary B K Sinha expressed dissatisfaction over MGNREGS work during his recent visit here. Sinha had visited Bathua village in Chas Block to inquire into...