-The Hindu Business Line The National e-Governance Plan can ensure that higher devolution of funds translates into improved outcomes Cutting edge technology is, no doubt, empowering. The right application of technology can boost productivity in all sectors of the economy: agriculture, manufacturing, services, business and governmental activities. Technology enables informed decision-making, stakeholder participation and efficient service delivery and can help ensure transparency, accountability, and rule of law leading to inclusive good governance....
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Lax norms linked to banking fraud: CAG
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Blaming weaknesses in the regulatory system as being the reason behind the rising cases of financial sector fraud, comptroller and auditor general (CAG) Shashi Kant Sharma on Friday drew attention to huge non-performing assets (NPAs) of public sector banks, a significant part of which could have been fraudulently obtained as advances by debtors and transferred abroad, from where they may never be recovered. The CAG also...
More »Government employees earn (much) more than private sector ones – but only at the entry-level -Mayank Jain
-Scroll.in However, 32 lakh employees are still not happy. People working for the Indian government have a reason to celebrate. The Narendra Modi government has just doled out a Rs 1.02 lakh crore pay hike for some 10 million current and ex-employees, whose salaries are likely to get a jump of 23.55% on average. On Wednesday, the Cabinet approved the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission and the wage hike should follow...
More »One year of housing for all: At this pace, it’s indeed a dream by 2022 -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express Housing activists say that a heavy reliance on private sector is the prime reason for poor pace of implementation of the PMAY New Delhi: A year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) with the stated purpose of constructing two crore houses for the urban poor by 2022—at the rate of 30 lakh houses per year— merely 1,623 houses have been constructed so far. The...
More »Additional days of work available under MGNREGS not taken up in drought hit states
Two back-to-back reports that shed light on the status of MGNREGA implementation in the country, have been released recently from the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD). A review of MGNREGA implementation in 8 different states of India by a team of experts during the month of May this year reveals that in many of the drought affected districts, the Gram Panchayats have no work to offer under the programme. (Please click...
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