The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act — or MGNREGA as it is commonly known — has completed five years. Since its inception, I remember how joyous I was while becoming part of the process of its being passed in the Lok Sabha. In fact, we were restless for the delay in the presenting of the standing committee's report. I felt it took too long a time in deliberating...
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IRMA evaluates MGNREGA's implementation in Sikkim by Prashant Rupera
Sikkim now needs to adopt mechanism to sustain assets that it has created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) programme. A research team from country's premier rural management institute - the Institute of Rural Management, Anand ( IRMA) - which evaluated MGNREGA's implementation in the North Eastern state has suggested this to the Sikkim government. Sikkim is the only state which has bagged three national awards...
More »Centre revises minimum daily wage under MGNREGS: Hooda
cThe Centre has revised the minimum daily wage under its flagship programme of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for all the states, Haryana government today said. As per this decision, the MGNREGA workers in Haryana would now get daily wage at the rate of Rs 179 with effect from January 1, 2011, a statement quoting Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said here. The revised wage rate of...
More »States to bear cost of aligning NREGA wages with minimum pay: Montek
The Planning Commission has said that states will have to bear the additional burden if the minimum wages notified by them are higher than that fixed by the Centre for work under the employment guarantee Act. In the case of rich "states that can afford very high minimum wages, the central government reimbursement will be limited", Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia told reporters. For a state where minimum wages are...
More »HC bench ruling on gram rozgar sewaks to benefit rural youth
A division bench of the Allahabad High Court has held that the government order issued on August 25 for holding a fresh selection for the appointment of `gram rozgar sewak' (village employment worker) after every three years, is constitutional and within the legislative competence of the state government. Through the order, the court has set aside the single judge order in a special appeal filed by the state government through...
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