-The Hindu Chennai: In a move to usher in more transparency in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will evolve standards to audit the scheme in 2.5 lakh villages, said ICAI president, Subodh Kumar Agarwal on Friday. Briefing reporters, he said ICAI would evolve a standardised procedure as the auditing of the MGNREGA scheme was unstructured one. He also urged the Centre...
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Building euphoria-Himanshu Upadhyaya
-Frontline But in Modi's Gujarat the difference between development and darkness is all too visible to those who care to see. NARENDRA MODI may have won three consecutive elections and ruled Gujarat for more than a decade after he was posted there almost as a night watchman, to borrow a cricketing expression. He may have mobilised a massive fan following that is shouting to catapult him into the Prime Minister's post,...
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-Down to Earth For RTI activists of Bihar the cost of exposing corruption is life Twenty-year-old Rahul Kumar, a right to information (RTI) activist, knew the land mafia was behind his parents' murder. His mother and father were involved in a land dispute in Muzaffarpur's Sirisia Jagdish village. Barely a week after filing an RTI application to seek information about the murderers, Kumar was kidnapped. A day later, on March 10, 2012,...
More »Irregularities in implementation of national rural employment scheme: CAG audit report -Swati Mathur
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India tabled the second performance audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Parliament on Tuesday. The first performance audit was undertaken in 2007-08. The period of coverage of the first audit was February 2006 to March 2007. The present performance audit of the implementation of MGNREGA was taken up in response to a request from the ministry...
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-Rising Kashmir Jammu, Apr 14: Despite liberal funding from Government of India for its popular scheme of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), state government has failed to complete 34886 works since its inception from 2007. Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India in its report of 2011-12 found that the number of works taken up for execution each year had been very high and the number of incomplete works...
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