The government may soon have to shell out an Unemployment Allowance if it fails to provide jobs to wage seekers under the flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). “The MGNREGA software will automatically generate the pay order for payment of unemployment allowance to the wage seekers, whose demand for work is not met within 15 days,” said a report of a high-level committee chaired by Plan panel member...
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Diluting a law by TK Rajalakshmi
The Law Commission recommends making Section 498A, IPC, compoundable, and women's groups say that would affect women's interests. A REPORT of the Law Commission of India on “Compounding of (IPC) Offences” suggesting that Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, which prescribes punishment for a husband or his relatives for subjecting a woman to cruelty, be made compoundable with the permission of the court, is fraught with several implications. The report...
More »Expanded National Rural Employment Guarantee Act to arrest fall in appeal
-The Economic Times An expert group has recommended adding 30 agricultural and allied works under the Centre's flagship rural job guarantee scheme, in a revamp aimed at making the country's costliest social sector programme more effective. As part of the overhaul of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the panel has also suggested an electronic fund management system to ensure timely transfer of money to needy districts. The recommendations of...
More »Dr Abhijit Sen, Member-Planning Commission of India, interviewed by Ajay Vir Jakhar and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Dr Abhijit Sen is Member, Planning Commission of India. He is a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge (currently on leave as Professor of Economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University) and has also taught at the Universities of Sussex, Oxford and Cambridge. Besides serving various think tanks in the states and at the centre, Dr Sen has been a consultant with UNDP, ILO, FAO and various other multilateral...
More »Virbhadra hits out at BJP govt, raises Prashant Bhushan’s land transaction
-Express News Service Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Virbhadra Singh on Tuesday tore into the state BJP government on various issues like corruption, illegal land deals and dynastic rule, and did not spare the state Congress leadership either for not playing the role of an effective Opposition. The five-time former chief minister raised the issue of land transfer recently allowed under Section 118 of the HP Tenancy and Land...
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