-Financial Express Over 152 crore person (Work) days have been created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) so far during the current fiscal, and this is more than half the ambitious revised target of 300 crore days set for the whole of the year, according to the official dashboard. In the April-July period of last fiscal, the person days created under the scheme were just 116 crore. Please click...
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As a district unlocks: ‘Left on a truck to see family, but now I am returning to save them’ -Dipankar Ghose
-The Indian Express Beginning May, a huge influx of returning migrants, unable to sustain themselves in locked-down cities, walking kilometres, starving in trains, reached the succour of home in Bihar. But with no Work, and the lockdown affecting the rural economy as well with falling agricultural prices, they are leaving again. Patna: THEY STAND close to each other, bags slung over shoulders, noses pressed against the glass. They watch flights land and...
More »These Odisha migrant Workers in Tamil Nadu are glad to have missed the train -Satyasundar Barik
-The Hindu As infections surge in Odisha, many guest Workers are relieved to have stayed on Like several other migrant Workers from Odisha, Sumant Naik made innumerable calls throughout May to enquire about a train back home from Perundurai in Erode; he also weighed the costs of returning by bus. Despite several calls, the journey back did not materialise. Now two months later, as the pandemic induced lockdown has eased in Tamil Nadu,...
More »Rise in Work demand: 12 districts shoot past whole fiscal’s NREGA Work generation budget in under 4 months -Harikishan Sharma
-The Indian Express Barring Mirzapur in UP, none of these districts is included in the official government list of 116 districts that received most returning migrant Workers during the lockdown, and where the government had launched the PM Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan on June 20. New Delhi: At least 12 districts have exceeded their annual job creation targets by generating substantially higher numbers of person-days’ Work between April 1 and July 21,...
More »An ASHA, an auto and a yen for service -Raghava M
-The Hindu Health Worker who drives three-wheeler in Udupi takes woman for delivery at 3 a.m. MANGALURU: When the woman in a rural area of Karnataka was going into labour at 3 a.m. on Thursday, she knew the number to call. It was that of Rajeevi, 53, an autorickshaw driver who was an accredited social health activist (ASHA) too. Since she had taken the pregnant woman from Pernankila village for a check-up to...
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