-The Pioneer Ranchi: Tuesday would be a proud moment for Jharkhand when officials of the State would share the mechanism, which is said to have helped in implementing the world’s largest pro-poor scheme — Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) — successfully. The State has been selected alongwith two others to showcase its success in arresting the menace of delayed payment, often blamed for suffocating the rural job scheme. The moment came...
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State digs into rural job scheme to clean villages -Sivakumar B
-The Times of India CHENNAI: In a rare initiative, the Tamil Nadu government has taken up waste management and conservancy in villages using the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to employ conservancy workers. The scheme is being implemented in 9,000 of 12,000 panchayats and more than 60,000 `Thuimai Kavalars` (sanitation workers) have been appointed so far. All workers are paid Rs.183 as daily wages. The Union rural development department...
More »For NREGA, Tamil Nadu Is The Only Hope -Reetika Khera
-NDTV NREGA, today celebrating its 10th anniversary, has received a hostile reception from the current political dispensation. The Rajasthan Chief Minister questioning the need for a law, the then Rural Development minister's suggestion to limit NREGA to a few districts, and the Prime Minister's speech in Parliament in 2015 reveal the BJP's hostility and double standards (NREGA was passed unanimously in 2005). Yet, it would be wrong to lay the entire blame...
More »Is Gujarat not part of India? SC questions failure in implementing MNREGA, Food Act
-PTI The bench also asked the Centre to collect and collate information from drought-hit states on the status of welfare schemes like MGNREGA, National Food Security and mid-day meal. The Supreme Court on Monday came down heavily on certain states for not implementing welfare legislation National Food Security Act, saying that why a state like Gujarat is not implementing the law passed by Parliament. “What is Parliament doing? Is Gujarat not a...
More »Rahul mission against job scheme 'dilution' -Sanjay K Jha
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi now plans to reach out to day labourers and tribals like he did with farmers and Dalits last year, raising alleged dilution of the legal framework the UPA government had built for them. The Congress has drawn up a nationwide campaign against alleged dilution of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which covers the lowest rungs of job seekers. It also plans to forcefully...
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