-The Asian Age The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act wages is set to go up, with the government on Thursday stating that it would bring parity with the agricultural minimum wages in states. The ministry of rural development would soon ask the finance ministry for an additional allocation of `2,000 crore to roll out the wage hike. Union minister for rural development Chaudhary Birendra Singh on Thursday informed the Lok...
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Government to start electronic transfer of MGNREGA wages from 2016 in Kerala
-PTI NEW DELHI: To prevent leakages in the MGNREGA programme, the government will introduce the system for electronic transfer of wages to the beneficiaries from January 1 next year in Kerala, Lok Sabha was informed today. An additional Rs 2,000 crore would be sought from the Finance Ministry towards ensuring that MNREGA wages are at par with the agriculture wages fixed by some states, Rural Development Minister Birender Singh said. Mahatma Gandhi National...
More »Sewa women teach Harvard students -Piyush Mishra
-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: Late Monday night in Boston, 25 students pursuing masters in public health from Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health gathered post-dinner for an important class. At the same time, three Self Employed Women's Association (Sewa) workers assembled at their office in Ellis bridge early on Tuesday morning to impart lessons to the students on the cooperative body's work and on leadership. The interaction session...
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-The Hindu Ten years of implementation of the Right to Information Act has spawned a new breed of activism and citizenship The Right to Information (RTI) Act has completed 10 years of implementation. According to a conservative estimate based on the Information Commission’s annual reports, there are at least 50 lakh RTI applications filed in India every year. The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative used the data to estimate that just under 1...
More »Dang women find route to empowerment through the stomach -Yagnesh Mehta
-The Times of India A Food Stall's Success At A Tribal Fair In 2006 Led To A Restaurant Chain Ahmedabad: Freshly cooked traditional tribal food served to people visiting a fair in Dang around nine years ago was such a hit that it led to women's empowerment through a chain of restaurants. The group of women that had set up the stall at the tribal fair decided to go ahead and capitalize...
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