Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) after reaching a saturation point in sanctioning of works like digging of nadis' (small water reservoirs), making gravel roads and plantations etc, is now focusing on improving the economic standard of the SC/ST and those in the Below Poverty Line' (BPL) category. Till now the works undertaken in the rural employment scheme were aimed at public utility, however the Gram panchayats covered...
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Rise and fall of a farmer leader by Ashish Tripathi
The fall of Ram Babu Kateliya, 60-year-old farmer from Kateliya village of Mathura district, was as fast as his meteoric rise within the past ten days. General Secretary of Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, an apolitical organisation, Kateliya shot into limelight after his arrest in Tappal tehsil of Aligarh while leading a farmers' agitation demanding high compensation for farmers whose land has been acquired for construction of a township. Three villagers lost...
More »Vedanta project: panel blames Orissa officials
For deliberate non-implementation of forest right, panchayat Acts The N.C. Saxena panel, which has asked the Centre not to clear Vedanta's bauxite mining project in Orissa, is scathing about the “collusion” of the State and district administrations, blaming them for deliberate non-implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) and the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act (PESA) in the region. These Acts insist that the consent of forest dwelling tribal communities...
More »Fund crunch hits rural road plans in Naxal dists by Ravish Tiwari
The fund crunch for the government’s rural roads proGramme appears all set to affect road construction efforts in the worst Naxal-affected districts where the government is contemplating to saturate road requirements — by connecting every habitation — beyond the rigid norms of Bharat Nirman and Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). The Rural Development Ministry, which administers the rural connectivity proGramme, is learnt to have apprised an empowered group of officers,...
More »Panchayats overhaul soon to smoothen rural schemes by Devesh Kumar
With a huge amount of funds riding on various rural development proGrammes, the Manmohan Singh government has now turned its sights on reforming and strengthening the panchayati raj system. And the task is going to start at the level of the Gram panchayats, which are the vehicle for the implementation of most of the rural development projects. The ministry of rural development and panchayati raj institutions is presently in the...
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