-PTI   Writing letters is the only option left to him to persuade Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati to order a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in implementation of MGNREGA in the state rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said on Friday. Ramesh, who wrote letters to Uttar Pradesh government, including Mayawati, favouring a CBI inquiry into the matter, said the Centre could not conduct a CBI probe into the matter without the concurrence...

-Express News Service   Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has rejected the charge of being politically motivated in seeking Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh government’s consent for a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in the implementation of the rural job guarantee scheme (NREGS). He reiterated that a CBI inquiry is the only option to send a strong message against instances of irregularities in the state. Ramesh made this point in his letter to Uttar...

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday dubbed as completely bogus Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's charge that his letter seeking her concurrence for a CBI probe into alleged embezzlement of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) funds was politically motivated. Reacting to Ms. Mayawati's letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Mr. Ramesh denied her charge of taking up with her the fraud committed in seven districts — siphoning...

-The Economic Times   Crying foul over politicisation of the rural jobs scheme, Chief Minister Mayawati has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, alleging a "preconcieved agenda" of Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh. Mayawati in her letter on Friday alleged that the letter Ramesh wrote to her was leaked to the media much before it reached her office. She slammed Ramesh for accusing the state government by making his...

-The Hindu   Expresses concern over implementation of scheme in Maharashtra Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has asserted that the Union government would initiate action against States where there is deliberate “misappropriation/embezzlement” of funds earmarked for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The Minister expressed concern over the “disappointing nature” of implementation of MGNREGS in Maharashtra and said he had addressed a letter to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan in...