-PTI Jharkhand PCC today welcomed the Union rural development ministry's recommendation for CBI probe into two cases of murder, apparently related to corruption and wage demands in MGNREGA scheme. "There are numerous instances of corruption cases in MGNREGA schemes and the CBI probe will unearth them," PCC general secretary-cum-spokesperson Sailesh Sinha said here. "The recommendation has come as a deterrent to the authorities, who are responsible to implement schemes under MGNREGA," he...
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Orissa: MGNREGA seems very hard to detain Migration by Alok Kumar Padhi
MGNREG Act came in to existence to check out poverty & distress migration. It also brought with the hope to create some permanent asset for the village. According to this Act came in to existence, then guide line also presented. Officials & staffs also appointed to implement the Act from state level to village level. Govt. is spending more & more money for staffs, fuels, different register for office use...
More »Health insurance smart card may be used for NREGS by Vikas Dhoot
The government is exploring whether it can use the biometric smart cards issued for its flagship health insurance scheme to stop misappropriation of funds under its rural employment scheme. The rural development ministry is in talks with the labour ministry to use the biometric smart cards issued for the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) for identifying beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). "I have seen truck drivers...
More »NREGA: Govt to look into FIR filed in Re 1 wage
The state government on Tuesday assured that it will examine the First Information Report filed for paying extremely low wages to MGNREGA workers in Gudliya village in Tonk district. The FIR had charged six village mates for paying just Re 1 as wages to about 99 workers. However, after protests by members of various organisations during the monthly meeting of NREGA, minister for rural development Bharat Singh assured that the department...
More »Panchayat banks to speed up MGNREGA workers' pay by KA Gupta
Though efforts have been initiated to allure labourers towards MGNREGA schemes, a latest issue at hand is the payment of wages on time. "If an officer takes interest in the execution of schemes of the centrally- sponsored Act, there will be no problem in payment of wages," said MGNREGA national inquiry committee member Wilfred Lakra, prasing the BDOs of Dumri and Ghaghra Shishir Kumar Singh and Manoj Kumar respectively for taking...
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