Jatav residents of Ramgarh in U.P. resist attempts by members of a powerful community to grab their land by violent means. IN what could be considered one of the worst incidents of vendetta against Dalits in the National Capital Region (NCR), members of the Dalit Jatav community were beaten up brutally by some members of the dominant Gujjar community in Ramgarh village in the Greater Noida area of Uttar Pradesh...
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PDS is getting computerised, but documents still come in between the needy and food security The Delhi government’s Food and Supplies Department is computerising its database to ensure ration card holders get their entitlements without fail. But it does not have a clue as to how the needy can get ration cards under the Public Distribution System (PDS). Or, it has not used any technology to reach the needy. Getting a...
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-The Deccan Chronicle Seven years after unveiling the rural job guarantee scheme, the Centre on Tuesday announced a major extension of scope of works under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) in a bid to revive demand for jobs, which witnessed over 20 per cent dip in the last financial year. Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday tabled the “MNREGA 2.0 — the second generation reforms”...
More »MGNREGA fails to find takers in Ludhiana, to now focus on women by Raakhi Jagga
Ludhiana : Despite the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA) assuring employment for 100 days to the villagers, the project is not finding many takers in Ludhiana district. In fact, the authorities are finding it so hard to find workers that they have now planned to focus more to enrol women as workers. While the Act stipulates that a worker will get Rs 150 as daily wage, in the open...
More »Rural development ministry turns down Parliament panel plea on NREGS
-The Business Standard The Ministry of Rural Development has rejected the demand of a parliamentary standing committee to include the works of artisans, weavers and leather workers in the list of permissible works under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The Central Employment Guarantee Council, constituted under the legislation establishing the Rural jobs scheme to oversee it, had earlier turned down this recommendation of the standing committee on urban and...
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