-Scroll.in Already 21 states have no funds and pending liabilities of Rs 6359 crore – as much as 16% of the outlay. Presenting his third budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced an outlay of Rs 38,500 crore to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme. This was the second consecutive year the finance minister increased the outlay for the rural works scheme, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had last February attacked...
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UPA’s flagship MGNREGA receives a fresh lease of life -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express ‘Expect 215 crore person-days of employment in 2016-17’ The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA), the flagship welfare programme of the previous UPA dispensation, seems to have received a fresh lease of life. This, barely a year after PM Narendra Modi had called it a “living monument of your (the Congress’s) failure to tackle poverty in 60 years”. Arun Jaitley’s Union budget for 2016-17 has provided a...
More »'Too little' tag on rural job scheme raise
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Finance minister Arun Jaitley today promised an 11 per cent hike in funds for the rural job scheme over the last financial year but critics termed it "highly insufficient", citing the wage arrears and increased demand. The government, though, has spent substantially more on the scheme this financial year than it had allocated in the last budget. Jaitley has earmarked Rs 38,500 crore for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural...
More »The near death, and revival, of MGNREGS -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard Back-to-back droughts and record-low farm commodity prices have forced the NDA government to look at MGNREGS in a new light.Things have started to look up for the scheme About a year back, Raqibul Hussain, Assam's rural development minister, was unhappy because he could not stop the Central government from lowering the state's annual entitlement under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme for 2014-15. This, he said in a day-long...
More »How Sikkim could offer lessons to other states in organic farming -G Seetharaman
-The Times of India It's 8:00 am on a Sunday and outside Denzong Cinema in Gangtok's Lal Bazar, the otherwise languid atmosphere is punctured by grocers of two kinds. On one side of the cinema are those who sell vegetables, fruits and spices sourced from outside Sikkim, mostly from Siliguri, 115 km south in West Bengal. On the other side of the cinema, almost completing a triangle, are farmers from the...
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