After questions were raised recently on the ''leakages'' in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), another concern – non-payment of salaries to Social Auditors in Karnataka –might well have broad implications for the programme in the State. For the past six months, the Social Auditors who are responsible for supervising, guiding, rectifying errors in the programme’s implementation, and motivating people to take up more and jobs under the...
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NAC to monitor programmes at panchayats now by Nistula Hebbar, Kirtika Suneja
After land acquisition and food security, the National Advisory Council (NAC) has set its sights farther, this time to monitor programme implementation at panchayats. The council led by Congress president Sonia Gandhi feels the ministry of statistics and programme implementation is not doing enough to monitor the panchayat programmes, while panchayati raj ministry has little say since most programmes are out of its purview. Monitoring panchayats would be part of an...
More »World Bank dictates India’s food policy by Tarun Nangia
The World Bank and a pliant UPA Government plan to do away with India's public distribution system and shut down four lakh ration shops. The excuse-the Public Distribution System (PDS) spends Rs 45,000 crore every year to supply BPL families wheat, rice, kerosene and sugar of which 60 per cent of grain is looted by the food mafia. The 412page 'World Bank Report: Social Protection for Changing India', released on...
More »NE MPs: Strengthen vigilance, monitoring committees
-Hueiyen News Service Members of Parliament from North Eastern States including three MPs from Manipur Rishang Keishing, Dr.Th Meinya and Thangso Baite demanded strengthening of the Vigilance and Monitoring Committee (VMC)s, which conduct Social Audit on the implementation of NREGA in the districts, with powers to the local MPs so that they could play an effective role in the implementation, monitoring and vigilance of the flagship programmes related to rural...
More »Declaration of assets made compulsory in Assam by Sushanta Talukdar
Assam Governor J.B. Patnaik on Tuesday said the annual declaration of assets by Ministers, parliamentary secretaries and all officials would be made compulsory and the institution of Lokayukta would be strengthened in the State. In his customary address at the ongoing inaugural session of the 13th Assam Assembly the Governor also announced that four new services — Assam Rural Service, Assam Economic Service, Assam Revenue Service and the Assam Information Service...
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