-DNA   The Centre has asked the Madhya Pradesh government to send "on priority basis" its action taken report on alleged corruption to the tune of several crore in works done under its flagship rural employment guarantee scheme. Senior officials in the rural development ministry said the state government has not yet sent its ATR over the series of irregularities pointed out by the ministry. "We are concerned over the irregularities and sought...

The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council has asked the Centre to ensure payment of the statutory minimum Wages to domestic workers. In a note sent on May 4 to the government, which is framing a national policy for domestic workers, the council asked it to enshrine the right to pay without gender discrimination as laid down in the Equal Remuneration Act of 1976. Domestic workers were on a par with other workers...

In the second such case Vyara taluka of Tapi district, a woman sarpanch of Kumbhia village has been accused of forging signatures of NREGS workers and including ghost names of beneficiaries in the roll muster to siphon off Rs 4.18 lakh. A complaint in this connection has been made to Taluka Development Officer and District Development Officer by the aggrieved workers. The fund was meant for construction of roads and three...

The state government on Tuesday assured that it will examine the First Information Report filed for paying extremely low Wages to MGNREGA workers in Gudliya village in Tonk district. The FIR had charged six village mates for paying just Re 1 as Wages to about 99 workers. However, after protests by members of various organisations during the monthly meeting of NREGA, minister for rural development Bharat Singh assured that the department...

Though efforts have been initiated to allure labourers towards MGNREGA schemes, a latest issue at hand is the payment of Wages on time. "If an officer takes interest in the execution of schemes of the centrally- sponsored Act, there will be no problem in payment of Wages," said MGNREGA national inquiry committee member Wilfred Lakra, prasing the BDOs of Dumri and Ghaghra Shishir Kumar Singh and Manoj Kumar respectively for taking...