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Leaders set to siphon off Rs 100cr NREGS funds

The government has decided to divert about Rs 100 crore of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) funds to construct roads in rural areas in Anantapur district. The Zilla Parishad will assign these works to contractors under the nomination process instead of inviting tenders. About Rs 50 lakh are allotted to each mandal and every constituency gets around Rs 5 crore for road works. Ruling party leaders are eyeing these funds as...

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A Sieve Of A Scheme? by Chandrani Banerjee

* Documentary evidence gathered by the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC) from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Rajasthan points to large-scale embezzlement in nrega projects * Panchayats often furnish fake bills and fictitious companies have been floated to divert funds * Hundreds of crores are lost to this sort of leakage * The CAG, too, has pointed out  large-scale irregularities and corruption in the implementation of NREGA projects...

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Blinkered vision by Vandana Prasad

If recent indicators are anything to go by – the failure to keep food prices down, the proposed national food security Act, the failure to ensure even minimum wages to construction workers at projects for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, to recount a few – it seems the country has given up even the pretence of caring about its children or their crippling, unbudging state of malnutrition. Leaders,...

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Right to governance

This has to be the ultimate irony. Barely a few weeks after a Supreme Court committee comes out with a verdict that the public distribution system is bust and needs a drastic overhaul, the government clears a food security bill that seeks to push more food through this very same burst pipe. If newspaper reports are to be believed, the Congress president is not happy with even this and wants...

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Not A Morsel Of Sense by Neelabh Mishra

The draft food security bill studiedly sidesteps the real problem An offending official disconnect with the hungry millions of India has been perpetrated by the very group aiming to improve their lot. In the minutes of its meeting of March 12, the empowered Group of Ministers, which cleared a draft food security bill for consideration of the Union cabinet, recorded this audacious passage: “The definition of food security should be limited...

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