-The Financial Express Seven years after MGNREGA came into being, the CAG report tabled on Tuesday in Parliament paints a dismal picture of the UPA's flagship Rural employment guarantee programme. According to the CAG, while employment generation fell from 54 days per household in FY10 to 43 days in FY12, states that account for 46% of the rural poor - Bihar, Maharashtra and UP - utilised only a fifth of the...
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CAG brings out drop in MGNREGS employment-Girija Shivakumar
-The Hindu Fault lies with States, unfair to blame Centre: CAG source The Comptroller and Auditor-General has found serious lapses in implementation of the UPA's flagship programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural employment Guarantee Scheme. In its second performance audit submitted to Parliament on Tuesday, the CAG said employment under the MGNREGS declined, funds were being diverted for other use and possible irregularities related to wage payments occurred. The audit covers implementation of the...
More »Mani push for panchayats-Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph A jump in the Centre's annual social welfare spending from Rs 7,500 crore in 1991 to Rs 3 lakh crore now has failed to make much difference on the ground because panchayati raj institutions are being kept away from implementation of the schemes, a committee has found. The committee headed by senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar, in its report released on the eve of National Panchayat Day, pitched for...
More »Tripura, Kerala open the door for women in panchayats -Anuja and Liz Mathew
-Live Mint The experience of Kerala and Tripura shows how panchayati raj can help in the empowerment of women Chulubari (Tripura)/Kanjikuzhy (Kerala): Her relatives warned Hena Das, a resident of Chulubari in Tripura, against taking up political office because it wasn't "meant for women". Das disregarded the warnings. Two years on, she has no regrets. She also has no male colleagues; her fellow representatives on the board of an 12-member panchayat are all...
More »Government auditor's (CAG) report says funds bungled in flagship Rural employment scheme-Shamik Ghosh
-NDTV Employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural employment Guarantee Act or MNREGA has declined, while Rs. 128 crore have been misused and work worth a staggering Rs. 4000 crore is incomplete, the government's auditor has alleged in its review of the rural job scheme that the Congress-led UPA government counts as one of its most significant achievements in the last nine years of rule at the Centre. In its report...
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