-Livemint.com Fresh fund infusion means the overall budget allocation for MGNREGS in 2016-17 will be Rs43,500 crore New Delhi: The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government has increased the budget for the national rural employment guarantee scheme by Rs.5,000 crore to Rs.43,500 crore for 2016-17, minister of state for rural development Ram Kripal Yadav told Parliament on Monday. The scheme “will not be shut down but strengthened. It is a special direction...
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Govt faces opposition flak in RS over Aadhaar-linked sops
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha had to be adjourned thrice in the pre-lunch session on Thursday amid an uproar as the opposition targeted the government, alleging people were being denied essential benefits, including subsidised LPG and pensions, for not having Aadhaar card. MPs from SP, TMC and BJD had given a notice for discussion on the issue and demanded it be taken up when the House assembled in the...
More »Government says Rs 21,000 crore saved in LPG subsidy under DBT scheme
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday said that close to Rs 21,000 crore was saved in two years by directly transferring subsidy (DBT) to user bank accounts. The savings are largely from the elimination of fake/ghost/duplicate/inactive domestic LPG connections. Over 3.34 crore of these connections were done away with after the implementation of DBT. According to government calculations, 3.34 crore blocked consumers would have used up Rs 14,818.4...
More »CAG audit nails Centre’s claim on LPG subsidy saving -Josy Joseph and TCA Sharad Raghavan
-The Hindu The audit has also found substantial systemic problems with the Direct Benefit Transfer in LPG scheme, called Pahal by the government. The Centre claims it would end up saving almost Rs. 22,000 crore in the financial years of 2014-15 and 2015-16 since launching its two-pronged approach on cooking gas subsidy — introducing direct bank transfers of the subsidy and asking better off consumers to voluntarily give up theirs. However, a CAG...
More »Additional days of work available under MGNREGS not taken up in drought hit states
Two back-to-back reports that shed light on the status of MGNREGA implementation in the country, have been released recently from the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD). A review of MGNREGA implementation in 8 different states of India by a team of experts during the month of May this year reveals that in many of the drought affected districts, the Gram Panchayats have no work to offer under the programme. (Please click...
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