A new draft of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) suggests offering Cash compensation to poor people who are unable to receive their quota of subsidized foodgrains. The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government will discuss the draft with state food secretaries in a meeting on 14-15 June. “The Central government shall set up, by notification, a central food security fund for payment of compensation to state governments in the event...
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Memories at public expense by Ramachandra Guha
Judging by the television news that night, May 20, 2010, was a day like any other — marked by natural disaster (a cyclone predicted for Orissa), violent rebellion (the blowing up of railway tracks by Maoists in Bihar), political partisanship (the insistence by Mamata Banerjee that the Union railways minister would be of her party even if she soon moved, as she hoped, to become chief minister of West Bengal),...
More »Team to probe diversion of NREGA funds
A three-member committee, formed by rural development ministry to probe allegations that Gujarat government was diverting NREGA funds for other projects, will visit the state next week for the inquiry. “It has been alleged in a report that Gujarat government diverted NREGA funds to facilitate making of Anicuts in the state and the work was not approved by the Gram Sabha. If allegations are true, it is clear violation of...
More »Soft battles by TK Rajalakshmi
Many governments in the developing world lack the will to eradicate child labour, says the third ILO global report on the deplorable practice. The effects of the present global economic and financial crisis, rather than its causes, have been the central preoccupation of organisations such as the International Labour Organisation in recent times. The ILO, in particular, has focussed on the impact of the crisis on populations within the least...
More »Naxal-hit districts perform well in rural job scheme by Ruhi Tewari
Some of the districts hit by India’s biggest internal security threat seem to have done as well or better than the rest of the country in one key development-related aspect, according to the government. Unlike other welfare schemes that fail to take off in any significant way in these areas, the performance of the flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in 31 districts, around one-third of the total...
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