The Andhra Pradesh government plans to provide rural connectivity in 14 districts across the state. The project has been linked to the Centre's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The government issued a GO on March 3, extending the project to 14 districts, which would get internal roads and drains in the next two years. The project would provide these facilities in Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, Mahabubnagar, Rangareddy,...
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If corrupt officers not punished then CBI will probe matter
The Rural Ministry of Government of India has written a letter to State Government in which it has been directed that corruption and criminal cases pertaining to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) should be investigated seriously and satisfactory action should be taken against the guilty officers. The Rural Ministry added that if this were not done then Centre would hand over these cases to CBI and take action...
More »NGO reveals Orissa, UP NREGA discrepancy by Debabrata Mohanty
About four years after its first survey on the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Orissa's hinterlands that showed large-scale defalcation of money, the Delhi-based NGO Centre for Environment and Food Security today in its second performance audit revealed that 67 per cent of very poor Dalit and tribal households in Orissa and UP did not get even a single day of the NREGS employment during previous...
More »HC seeks explanation from MGNREGA authority for non payment of allowances
The Guwahati high court, Imphal bench has issued a notice of motion returnable within four weeks in response to the writ petition filed by 14 Job card holders of Naoriya Pakhanglakpa Gram Panchayat for non payment of unemployment allowance despite the fact that the Ombudsman, MGNREGS, Imphal West district had issued an award in this regard. A statement issued by the Human Right Law Network (HRLN) in this connection said that...
More »NREGS fraud by ministers under probe
The national level monitors of the Union ministry of rural development, probing irregularities into the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) received several complaints. These were with reference to the implementation of the scheme in the state, including misuse of funds by two ministers. The committee will tour different parts of the state to probe irregularities and receive complaints from aggrieved parties. While one team is in Hyderabad,...
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