-Newsonair.com Notwithstanding its geographically small size and tiny population, Sikkim excels in implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. About three fourth of the one lakh rural households of the state have been provided with the job cards so far under the scheme, which kicked off in the state five years ago. The Nodal Officer for implementation of MGNREGS and Special Secretary in the State's Rural Management and Development...
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1.55 lakh get identity cards under MNREGS
PERAMBALUR: About 1.55 lakh persons have registered under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the district and all of them have been issued with identity cards, said Collector Darez Ahmed here on Tuesday. Mr.Ahmed, who inspected various works taken up under the scheme in Veppanthattai panchayat union, said works worth Rs.56.64 crore would be executed under the MGNREGS in the district during the current financial year. The works...
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-Express News Service The best way to save a project is to make its beneficiaries responsible for it. At least that was the idea of the previous LDF Government when it mooted the formation of village-level social audit officers for the transparent implementation of NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) in the state. The new government has also decided to go forward with the idea and has included the formation...
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Recently launched National Rural Livelihood Mission might help the government in getting desired results from its social benefit schemes. Seen as the next big rural project after the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, NRLM will provide a platform for formation of village groups that will then assist in fine-tuning existing government schemes. The government's expectations from NRLM stems from the instances of success in some states that have been able to...
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A year before assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Planning Commission has ranked the state poorly on performance of 12 major flagship schemes of the Central government. The new analysis is likely to provide Congress ammunition against the Mayawati government on UP for not been able to utilize the Central government funds effectively. The new ranking, which is the part of annual state plan report for 2011-12, finds UP at the bottom...
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