The government is in no hurry to enhance the outlay on Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) to Rs 5 crore nor has any intention to merge it with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee programme (MGNREGA) in the near future. Emerging from a national consultation meeting on enhancing inclusiveness of the MPLADS and to make it more target-oriented, minister of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) Sriprakash Jaiswal...
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MPLADS norms’ revision hits hurdles by Asit Ranjan Mishra
State governments as well as Central agencies have opposed a proposal to use money from the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) for building community centres under the Union government’s flagship rural jobs guarantee programme. Officials said managing accounts for such a diversion would be difficult and could lead to the misuse of funds. A meeting of state government representatives and district collectors, meant to revise MPLADS guidelines to make...
More »Do Cities Import Crime? by Neelabh Mishra
In the capital of migrants, crime and loose tongues that is Delhi, it wasn’t unusual that Union home minister P. Chidambaram made the lazy connection that migrants are responsible for the city’s rising crime graph. After all, chief minister Sheila Dikshit has also done that before—only to recant when it was met with outrage, the way Chidambaram eventually did. That leaders at Chidambaram’s and Sheila’s level could be so simplistic...
More »Comprehensive Plan Needed for Helping the Homeless by Bharat Dogra
No matter how tired we are in the course of a difficult day’s work, there is always the reassuring feeling that at the end of the hard work we’ll go back to sleep in the comfort of our home. But there are millions of people in our cities who simply do not have a home. The homeless of our cities suffer the most; yet they are the most neglected. No...
More »Data shows few migrant criminals by Rahul Tripathi
Union home minister P Chidambaram remark blaming the spiralling crime graph in the capital on migrant population comes at a time when in most cases, local people are involved and new gangs are emerging in Delhi's crime scene. A look at the statistics available with Delhi Police gives an entirely different picture than what was portrayed by the home minister. More than 83% of people involved in crime this year were...
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