-Frontline.in The increase in the budgetary allocation for the MGNREGA is only marginal. The scheme helped lower the poverty level by 32 per cent between 2004-05 and 2011-12, but government support for it has been declining steadily. In the beginning, economists belonging to the Right and the Left were of the view that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was merely a populist measure. While the former believed...
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Girls as good as boys in maths: NCERT survey -Manash Pratim Gohain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The notion that girls are not good with numbers and science is just a myth, if data from a nationwide survey of more than 2.7 lakh students is any indicator. The survey conducted on Class X student showed girls performed on an equal footing with boys in mathematics, science and social sciences. The study, however, upheld another common conception — that girls have better language skills....
More »Despite being around for a decade, MGNREGS continues to be plagued by leakages, fraud -Dinesh Narayanan
-The Economic Times I will never make the mistake of discontinuing M(G)NREGA; because it is a living testimony of your failures. After 60 years of Independence you had to make people dig ditches — Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In that March 2015 speech in Parliament, Prime Minister Modi taunted the Congress Party that the rural job guarantee programme Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was required because of the party's...
More »Decline in RTI queries and replies worries activists -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a blow to transparency in governance, the number of RTI queries have declined as have the number of public authorities submitting data on the legislation. The annual report of the Central Information Commission (CIC) shows that a total of 7.55 lakh RTI applications were filed in 2014-2015, a decline of 79,000 since last year. Almost 90,000 RTI applications were pending decision at the start of...
More »Aadhaar bill: With no respect for the law -Usha Ramanathan
-The Indian Express There is reason to wonder if this law is intended to be taken seriously, except in getting everyone on the data base, making it a scheme to number the population, and giving extraordinary powers to the UIDAI. The disrespect for the law has been an abiding aspect of the UID project, never mind the government (facts have mattered as little, but that is for another time). In the beginning...
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