-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, who had demanded scrapping of the MGNREGA last year, has now turned to the same law for helping her tide over a crisis. With hailstorms causing massive devastation of crops in 26 of the total 33 districts in early March - and Congress president Sonia Gandhi coming down to join protests against the state administration - among the multiple relief packages...
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Fewer jobs as Delhi 'neglects' rural scheme -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Millions of villagers are on course to missing out on livelihood-sustaining work under the national job scheme this year if figures released by the government are any indication. The figures suggest that by the time this financial year draws to a close, far fewer families will have benefited under the scheme compared with 2013-14, while the number of persondays of work generated would also drop significantly. According to official...
More »Mission for Green India, MGNREGA will converge to facilitate afforestation on 10 million hectares of land -Yogima Sharma
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The Centre has decided to extend its flagship rural jobs scheme to include afforestation as part of a move to create more durable assets through the programme that Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently derided as a living monument to the previous UPA government's failures and promised to overhaul. Officials said the National Mission for a Green India (GIM) and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act...
More »Social spending cut: Rural job scheme, SSA in focus -Ruhi Tewari
-The Financial Express As cuts in social sector spending in the forthcoming Union Budget are widely anticipated, the focus will be on two of the biggest flagship schemes - the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, both with individually high budget allocations. MGNREGA, launched by the Congress-led UPA government in 2006, has been in the midst of controversy this year, with the NDA government being accused...
More »Rural job scheme: Sonia and Rahul’s bastions lagging on key parameters -Ruhi Tewari
-The Indian Express The Congress may be quick to attack the ruling NDA government for attempting to dilute the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) since it came to power, and for its poor implementation this year, but the high-profile constituencies of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi have performed dismally under the scheme, ranking below the national average on most key parameters. MGNREGA, introduced in...
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