Rural Development Minister C P Joshi today said only 65 lakh households had got 100 days employment under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme though 10 crore people had got job cards when the programme was launched. "When NREGA was launched 10 crore people got job cards. Of these, 4.6 crore got work. But only 65 lakh households availed of 100 days work," Joshi said. He was speaking at...
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Tribal children rescued in Manipur by Iboyaima Laithangbam
The police at Sekmai in Manipur have rescued 10 tribal children, including three girls, from a child trafficker on Wednesday. They were being taken to Chennai as a part of a racket. The children, hailing from the interior villages of Churachandpur district, can speak only their dialects. They were being taken in an inter-State bus by a trafficker identified as JAMes Khup (27) of New Lamka, Churachandpur. Following numerous instances of child...
More »Women in panchayat councils seek quota within quota by Aarti Dhar
Impressing upon political parties to take note of discrimination against women from the Dalit and backward communities, scores of women panchayat council representatives on Friday demanded quota within quota in the Women's Reservation Bill. They were participating in a day-long conclave organised by ActionAid India here. Over 50 of them were from Bihar, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. “Yes, in theory women are equal to men. But even stepping out of...
More »From a lay, unskilled worker to an award-winner by Smriti Kak Ramachandran
“The training coupled with our steely resolve has led us to where we are today -- confident and proud” There is nothing unusual about Jusmi Tudu, a 48-year-old woman from Santhal tribe in Jharkhand. Not even her uniform -- a blue shirt and trousers. But when she begins to tell you of her metamorphosis from a sari-clad, unskilled worker to an award-winning senior technician who works for Tata Steel, you...
More »Food incentives spur child immunization by Anupama Chandrasekaran
Even after four decades of work, the number of fully immunized children in the area was a shocking 3% due to absent nurses and indifferent parents Seva Mandir, a 40-year-old non-governmental organization, began working with the Abdul Latif JAMeel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) in 2003 to evaluate full immunization levels among children in and around Udaipur. Even after four decades of work, the number of fully immunized children in the area was...
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