Will you go and make complaints to the same public official against whom you have a grievance? Of course not. However, in a judgement dated 21 July, 2017 by a two-judge Supreme Court (SC) bench, it has been observed that officers in charge of implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA), were also designated as District Grievance Redressal Officers (DGROs) by several state governments. Section 15 of NFSA The SC...
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Centre accused of MGNREGA 'data fraud', late release of funds -Vishwadeepak
-NationalHeraldIndia.com Why is the Centre delaying in releasing wages under MGNREGA to non-BJP-ruled states compared to BJP-ruled states? What explains the delay of just six days in making payments under MGNREGA in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh but a delay of 89 days in Kerala? In both the cases authorities in the two states had processed the work payment order within the stipulated 15 days, which indicated that the states had done due diligence...
More »Delay in compensation wrongly calculated under NREGA: Researchers -Pratap Vikram Singh
-Governance Now Only 20 percent wage payments are time bound under NREGA, says a new study A new research on the implementation of national rural employment guarantee law (NREGA) disputes the way central government measures and offers the delay in compensation to workers. A group of three independent researchers claim that the figures in the NREGA management information system (MIS) have been manipulated to only partially calculate the duration of wage...
More »Over 37% of schools in India have no electricity
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In an indicator of the state of school infrastructure in the country, Centre told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that over 37% of schools did not have electricity connections till March 2017. While only 62.81% schools in the country have electricity connections, jharkhand is at the bottom of the list with just 19% schools in the state having access to electricity. The national capital along...
More »Midday meals scheme: Are corruption claims exaggerated? -Monika Yadav
-Ideas for India Soon after Aadhaar was made compulsory for availing midday meals in schools, the government claimed that the move had helped expose several instances of schools siphoning off funds under the scheme by reporting inflated student enrolment. Comparing official data with that from the Indian Human Development Survey, this column shows that corruption in the scheme is less than what is being alleged - and not of the nature...
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