-The Indian Express Two months after the Supreme Court issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government to respond to alleged anomalies in MGNREGS pointed out in the survey report of the Centre for Environment and Food Security (CEFS), the state government has formed special teams to investigate the complaints in five districts of Bundelkhand. Five teams have been formed to do spot verification of the anomalies pointed out in the report,...
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Spurt in farmer suicides in Bundelkhand by Swati Mathur
Everything is in short supply here, especially hope. There was a flicker of it, though, when on April 30 Prime Minister Manmohan Singhcame here with Rahul Gandhi. Maybe the people were expecting a miracle, an end to the misery created by season after season of bad crops and the resultant rising debt. Their hope proved to be short-lived. Since then, nine farmers have killed themselves in Banda district alone, the...
More »Criteria for the Selection for the award of Best Gram Panchayats based on their contribution in implementing the MG NREGA
Twelve Gram Panchayats from seven states have been selected for the Award under the Scheme of Awards for Best Performing Gram Panchayats for the year 2009-10. These are Khairwahi (Dondi Block) and Machandur (Durg Block) from Durg District of Chhattisgarh; Kalauna (Dadwali Block) from Sirsa Disstrict of Haryana; Nedumkandam (Nedumkandam Block) from Idduki and Kottukal (Athiyannoor Block) from Thiruvanthapuram districts of Kerala; Pandurna (Mukhed Block) from Nanded district of Maharashtra;...
More »Mahoba farmer succumbs, magisterial probe ordered
Babbu Kushwaha, the farmer who had set himself on fire in protest against the “inadequate” compensation being offered for his land in Kabrai area of Mahoba on Friday, succumbed to his injuries at the Jhansi Medical College on early Saturday. Mahoba DM Vijay Vishwas Pant told The Indian Express that a magisterial probe has been ordered into the farmer’s death. In the morning, the farmers of the area blocked the Mahoba-Kanpur highway...
More »UP govt denying 23% quota to SC: Punia
Alleging that the UP government had failed to provide the prescribed 23% quota to scheduled castes in government services, chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) PL Punia claimed it was also misutilising the funds meant for the dalit. Talking to media on Monday evening, Punia said as per the ratio of the scheduled castes in the total population of the state, a provision had been made to...
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