-The Telegraph Patna: Chief minister Nitish Kumar today charged the Centre with abolishing the Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF) in "clear violation" of the Act mandated by Parliament and said he was thinking of moving court against the decision. "I met Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on February 26 and specifically apprised him that the BRGF abolition was in contravention of the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000. The special assistance under BRGF had...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 24
Panchayat schemes off Centre table -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Eight central schemes have been left to states following the Centre's decision to raise their share of federal taxes, but this has left the Union panchayati raj ministry almost jobless. The schemes de-linked from central support are: Backward Regions Grant Funds (BRGF) of the panchayati raj ministry; Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Sashaktikaran Abhiyaan (RGPSA) of the panchayati raj ministry; E-governance...
More »Some Finance Commission suggestions will have "serious effects", says Abhijit Sen in dissent note
-FirstPost.com Abhijit Sen, part-time member of the Planning commission, has openly criticised some of the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission, particularly with respect to the ones on sharing of taxes to state governments. The dissent note was carried in the report of the commission tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. "The recommendations regarding devolution and revenue deficit grants are bound to disrupt existing plan transfers, with likely very serious effects in the...
More »Learning from NREGA -Jean Drèze
-The Hindu Business Line Corruption in NREGA works has steadily declined in recent years. There are important lessons here that need to be extended to other domains One neglected aspect of the debate on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) relates to the process aspects of the programme. In the process of planning works, organising employment, paying wages or fighting corruption, many valuable activities take place: Gram Sabhas are held, workers...
More »Two lakh Anganwadi Centre Buildings approved for construction by Government in 12th Plan
-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Women and Child Development The Government has approved construction of 2 lakh Anganwadi Centre Buildings during the 12th Plan under the programme of ‘Reconstructing and Restructuring ICDS'. The phasing of construction is given below:- 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 0 20000 50000 60000 70000 200000 The Units will be constructed at the rate of Rs. 4.5 lakhs per unit in the cost sharing ratio of 75:25 between Centre and States against the North Eastern Region...
More »
