Once lauded as a model state for implementation of MGNREGA — the flagship programme of the UPA government — the state is on the backfoot nowadays as far as the scheme is concerned. Even as the Opposition BJP and the ruling Congress try to extract political mileage out of sarpanches agitation, at stake is the very scheme that has not only reduced the migration of labourers to other states but...
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Rural schemes are poorly implemented
The Mahila Swaraj Abhiyan in association with the Mahila Adhikar Abhiyan organised a two-day tribunal for women activists and elected members of the Gram Panchayat. The aim is to discuss the implementation of various schemes designed for the empowerment of rural India. The tribunal was organised to study the implementation of various programmes and its implementation at the grassroots level by the state government.Around 200 women participated in the tribunal and pointed...
More »82 officers to conduct special audit in rural areas
In order to maintain transparency and direct control on the executing agencies in the MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Agency) scheme, district magistrate Sanjay Prasad has ordered for conducting a social audit. He has also deployed about 82 officers for conducting social audits in the rural areas. These officers have also been allotted Gram Panchayats where they would conduct social audits. The officers have been instructed to conduct social...
More »State Government to provide jobs to 10 lakh families
The state government has prepared a strategy to provide 100-day job to 10 lakh most deprived families under Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in this fiscal. "These targeted 10 lakh people would include 5 lakh the most poor families and the rest, 5 lakh, would be women," Secretary Rural Development Manoj Singh said here on Sunday. He said to start with the families would be identified and their data...
More »Tribals to earn more from forests by Nitin Sethi
It's a Rs 50,000 crore annual business but those at the bottom of the supply chain -- mostly tribals -- make a mere Rs 4,000 crore out of it. The extraction of non-timber forest produce -- tuburs, leaves, seeds, plants and roots, besides other products from forest -- could soon become a bigger money-spinner for tribals. The government has set up a committee, which in three months will recommend how...
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