The Opposition BJP on Tuesday held Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik responsible for the NREGS scam in Orissa, which would now be investigated by the CBI following a direction by the Supreme Court. “The Chief Minister is the head of the state council which monitors and supervises execution of work under MGNREGA. So he cannot escape responsibilities. What is really shameful is that the Supreme Court singled out Orissa for the CBI...
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Need to bring farm work under modified NREGS: Gulati
Rising farm wages, which have a major impact on food prices, may force the government to devise a blueprint in which agricultural work is included under a widened ambit of a government's flagship job surety scheme, a key government official said. "We may need to come up with some sort of a special agreement for wage payment to beneficiaries working on farms since they are privately owned," Ashok Gulati, noted farm...
More »NHRC notice to Jharkhand on plight of child workers by J Balaji
Reacting to a report published in The Hindu, which told the story of illegal employment of children and their plight in the coal mines of Hazaribagh district, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to Jharkhand Chief Secretary Ashok Kumar Singh seeking a report within four weeks on the issue. The news report, “In Jharkhand, children slug it out in ‘rat holes' to make a living”, was published...
More »Andhra to use NREGS funds for roads in SC/ST areas by Sreenivas Janyala
Andhra Pradesh will be the first state to use National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) funds to provide road connectivity and improve hygienic conditions in remote areas inhabited by Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe people. Rural connectivity has now been included in the permissible category of works under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA). Following this, the state government decided to spend Rs 1,000 crore from NREGS funds to...
More »NAC planning ways to develop rain-fed areas by Amit Agnihotri
In order to get a deeper understanding of the problems in the rain-fed areas, the NAC on natural resources management would soon hold consultations with the rural development ministry, states and NGOs Concerned over asset creation under the flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) will explore ways and means to maximise the rural job plan in developing the rain-fed areas in...
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