-OrissaPost.com Bhubaneswar: The state Government lost its direction on execution of the biggest rural employment generation scheme–Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). This was indicated in a Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report on local bodies for the year ended March 2017. Briefing media about the findings of the audit report, Accountant General of Orissa Madhumita Basu said, “The per annum average income of the households (HHs) in...
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From Plate to Plough: The right agri-support -Ashok Gulati & Tirtha Chatterjee
-The Indian Express Schemes to ensure that farmers get fair returns will come a croppper unless trade and tariffs are synced with minimum support prices. With farm prices of several commodities falling way below their minimum support prices (MSPs) in 2016-17 and 2017-18, farmers have been under increasing stress. The Centre and several state Governments are searching for ways and means to support farmers. In his recent address (Mann ki Baat), the...
More »No hike in MGNREGA wages in 10 states -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express In the worst wage revision in the history of the rural employment guarantee scheme, that started in 2006, MGNREGA workers in 10 states will get no hike in their wages for FY 2018-19, according to the revised wage rates issued by the Union Government. In the worst wage revision in the history of the rural employment guarantee scheme, that started in 2006, MGNREGA workers in 10 states will get...
More »MGNREGA wage rates have not risen for 9 states including Bihar, Jharkhand & U.P.
-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 1 April, 2018 Hours after NREGA Sangharsh Morcha wrote an open letter (please click here to access) to the Rural Development Minister demanding notification of revised MGNREGA wage rates for 2018-19, the Ministry issued the employment guarantee act wage rates for the new financial year. Wage rates have not increased for some of the poorest states of the country – Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar...
More »Diesel price hits all-time high, petrol prices highest in over 4 years -Sumant Banerji
-BusinessToday.in Prices of diesel hit an all-time high of Rs 64.40 per litre in Delhi, while petrol prices were at Rs 73.55, highest in over four years. The last time petrol prices were higher was in September 2013 when it was Rs 76.06 per litre in the city. In a bid to bring in transparency in pricing of fuels, the Government had changed the fortnightly revision of prices to a daily routine...
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