-The Hindu Business Line Wants PAN used in payments over ₹1 lakh, cap on amount of cash a person can keep Income Tax authorities have traced about ₹4,500 crore in undisclosed money in bank accounts overseas, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the matter said in its second report to the Supreme Court. The report, released on Friday, said investigations are pending in 33 cases involving an amount of ₹14,957.95 crore, and that...
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Jharkhand CM also opposes changes to MNREGA -Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu Hemant Soren's letter to the PM in this regard comes a week after his Tripura counterpart held a rally in New Delhi against funds cuts in the scheme. Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with an appeal "to ensure that the provisions of MNREGA are not diluted in any manner." Mr. Soren's letter to the PM comes a week after Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar...
More »Not curtailing rural job scheme: Government
-IANS New Delhi: The government is not trying to curtail MNREGA and the number of blocks under the act have not been reduced, Rural Development Minister Birender Singh told parliament Thursday. The minister was responding to a calling attention motion in the Rajya Sabha by Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja and others, criticising the move of the government to introduce changes in the rural employment scheme by reducing the...
More »Sharpest-ever fund cut for rural job scheme -Namrata Acharya
-Business Standard Between April and September 2014, the central govt released Rs 13,618 cr to states, against Rs 24,676 cr in the same period last year Kolkata: The Union government has severely cut the funds for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, one of the largest job-creation programmes in the world, even as it deliberates on framing new norms for it. Compared to last financial year, there has been nearly a 45...
More »How to reform and how not to -Mihir Shah
-The Hindu Every effort needs to be made to reform MGNREGA, as it has been both a major success and a huge failure. The best way for this is to study carefully the conditions that made it a success and also to undertake a diagnostics of its failures An impression has gained ground in recent weeks that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre is inimical to the Mahatma Gandhi...
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