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Nudged by Sonia, govt plans Central NREGA audit by Swaraj Thapa

Barely a month after Sonia Gandhi flagged concerns over shortcomings in the implementation of UPA’s flagship MNREGA scheme and sought strengthening of social audit done by the gram sabha, as mandated under the Act, the government is looking at the scope of amending the Act to allow for better accounting scrutiny by the Central agencies. A meeting convened by Law Minister Veerappa Moily with Rural Development Ministry officials Monday examined...

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Time to find out where the money goes

The Union Government’s belated decision to establish an audit mechanism for projects undertaken under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has been motivated by a number of complaints regarding irregularities in the implementation of the programme. The Government should have taken the step much earlier, in fact soon after the scheme was introduced with much fanfare as the ruling United Progressive Alliance’s flagship social sector project. But at...

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Survey outlines reform agenda for accelerated growth by Ashok Dasgupta

Policy reforms required to bring about better convergence of schemes Streamlining of environment clearance for infrastructure projects suggested Higher farm sector share in economic development needed The Economic Survey 2010-11 has advised the government to carry out nearly a dozen reforms pertaining to various sectors of the economy and stressed that action in this regard would be necessary to achieve the 9 per cent GDP (gross domestic product) expansion projected for 2011-12 and...

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Short On The Delivery by Chandrani Banerjee

When it came to power in May 2009, some ministers in the UPA government had set themselves a deadline of 100 days to show results. But one year and nine-odd months later, the report card of its flagship programmes in nine states hit by Maoism is dismal. Much of the money allocated has gone unspent, according to the “performance study” the Planning Commission conducted in these states and submitted to...

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Gherao over MGNREGA bunglings

Over 2,000 activists of CPI (ML) Liberation gheraoed the Dasmantpur block office on Thursday demanding probe into irregularities in the execution of many developmental projects including the central employment scheme MGNREGA. The agitators took out a rally at the block headquarters before submitting a memorandum to the BDO. "Several poverty alleviation programmes have failed in the block due to the indifference of the officials concerned. People are unable to get...

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