-The Indian Express In the worst wage revision in the history of the rural employment guarantee scheme, that started in 2006, MGNREGA workers in 10 states will get no hike in their wages for FY 2018-19, according to the revised wage RATes issued by the Union government. In the worst wage revision in the history of the rural employment guarantee scheme, that started in 2006, MGNREGA workers in 10 states will get...
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Govt botched up NREGA: CAG
-OrissaPost.com Bhubaneswar: The state government lost its direction on execution of the biggest rural employment geneRATion scheme–Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). This was indicated in a Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report on local bodies for the year ended March 2017. Briefing media about the findings of the audit report, Accountant General of Orissa Madhumita Basu said, “The per annum average income of the households (HHs) in...
More »Construction sector jobs have let down peasants -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times An examination of RBI data indicates that peasants turning to construction are increasingly at the same income levels as farming, in probably more challenging conditions. Shifting agricultural workers to remuneRATive non-farm jobs, is India’s central challenge on the employment front. The construction sector has been a mainstay of non-farm jobs over the last two decades. However, these jobs are increasingly losing their remuneRATive potential. The KLEM (Capital with a K, Labour,...
More »MGNREGA wage RATes have not risen for 9 states including Bihar, Jharkhand & U.P.
-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 1 April, 2018 Hours after NREGA Sangharsh Morcha wrote an open letter (please click here to access) to the Rural Development Minister demanding notification of revised MGNREGA wage RATes for 2018-19, the Ministry issued the employment guarantee act wage RATes for the new financial year. Wage RATes have not increased for some of the poorest states of the country – Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar...
More »All Kerala, Mizoram households are open defecation free -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Only 44% of households in Bihar, U.P. use toilets 100% of the time: survey Kerala and Mizoram top the list of States, with 100% of households which do not practise open defecation, while Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are at the bottom of the rankings, with less than 44% of such households, The Hindu’s analysis of the raw data geneRATed by a government-commissioned survey finds. Sixty eight per cent of rural households...
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