-IBN The statement of the Union Minister of State for Health, Mullappally Ramachandran, the other day that the local bodies had failed to utilise National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) funds comes as no surprise. * The last report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the implementation NRHM in Kerala had pointed out in detail the deficiencies such as absence of a perspective plan, accumulation of huge unspent funds in banks,...
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CPI(M) backs Ramesh's idea of a social Audit of MPLADS funds
-PTI The CPI (M) today backed the Union Minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh's remarks favouring a social Audit of funds spent by Members of Parliament under MPLAD Scheme and demanded that the programme be scrapped. “The money that has been spent by the MPs must be subjected to a social Audit. This is public money and it needs to be under public scrutiny,” the CPI (M) politburo member, Mr Sitaram Yechury, told reporters...
More »Time yet before NREGA's achieves target: PM
-PTI Urging state governments not to 'fail the poor', Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the country had still to realise the 'full potential' of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) whose implementation had been 'uneven across states'. "We still have miles to go before we achieve the full potential of this unique legislation in annals of recent history. The performance of the programme, as I have mentioned, has been...
More »Ministry approves proposal for UID-linked direct subsidy transfer by Surabhi Agarwal
The finance ministry has put its seal of approval on a proposal to directly transfer subsidies to the bank account of a beneficiary that is linked to her Aadhaar, or unique identification (UID) number. The government has previously articulated its desire to experiment with direct transfers to make its management of subsidies more efficient and ensure benefits actually reach the targeted people. In a notification issued on Tuesday, the finance ministry extended...
More »The Union Cabinet gets healthier by P Sainath
The worse off the poor become, the healthier our Ministers get. Air India might not be doing as well we'd like it to. But the braveheart who flew it fearlessly into dense clouds of debt is doing okay. Praful Patel (who no longer holds the aviation portfolio) added, on average, over half a million rupees every day to his assets in 28 months between May 2009 and August 2011. This might...
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