A case of irregularity in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has been detected in Karanjakala block of Jaunpur district. Joint director (industry) Indramohan Dubey, in his inspection report submitted to divisional commissioner Ajay Kumar Upadhyaya, mentioned that job cards of workers were not made in Vibi Gram sabha of Karanjakala block. Locals told him that they had given applications for this purpose but they were not given job...
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Father struggles to get NREGA wages, son dies in hospital by Supriya Sharma
A week after he lost his ailing son, and ten months after he worked on a village road project, Pitbasu Bhoi finally got the ten thousand rupees he had earned under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment ProGram (MNREGA). "Of what use is the money now? I have just immersed my son's ashes. When I needed the money to save his life, I did not have it," says Bhoi. The...
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While the farmers claim that one protesting farmer allegedly died due to the brutal lathicharge by police, the police denies by saying that he died of cardiac arrest. The farmer was identified as Gulab of Dewari village. DIG/SSP, Allahabad, Ramkumar said: "Gulab died of cardiac arrest when his family was on their way to nursing home but were trapped in the agitation. On reaching the nursing home, doctors declared him...
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Even though the Central Government agreed to link the wages paid under MG-NREGA to the Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers (CPIAL), it shied away from paying statutory minimum wages in various states of India. Their logic for this: Lack of clarity on who will bear the extra financial burden—the Centre or the states? A letter from the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to UPA and NAC Chairperson Sonia Gandhi dated 31...
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The Bihar government has launched an "organic farming promotion proGramme" for the cultivation of organic crops in all the districts of the state. The government has decided to develop 38 "organic Grams (organic villages)" for which a sum of Rs 255 crore has been sanctioned for five years. Some of these villages are: Dahour (Patna), Sartha (Nalanda), Belsand (Gopalganj), Gaighat Jaata (Muzaffarpur), Rajapaakar (Vaishali) and Narpatganj (Araria). This proGramme is being run...
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