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'Irregularity' cloud on NREGA app in Jharkhand - Animesh Bisoee

The Telegraph Jharkhand NREGA Watch, a network of organisations and individuals actively working on MGNREGA in the state, have detected irregularities in MGNREGA works with misuse of the national mobile monitoring system (NMMS) app at a block in West Singhbhum district. A two-member team of Jharkhand NREGA Watch comprising convener James Herenz and Balram visited Golasai and Edelbera village under Asantalia panchayat of Sonua block in West Singhbhum on Wednesday as part...

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Sonia Gandhi tells Centre to ensure proper allocation of Budget for MGNREGA, payment of wages within 15 days of work

-The Tribune Poor workers cannot be punished by stopping the money, she says Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday urged the BJP-led Centre to ensure proper allocation of the Budget for MGNREGA and payment of wages within 15 days of work, saying “poor workers cannot be punished by stopping the money”. Speaking in the Lok Sabha during Zero Hour, Gandhi said, "The payment of wages should be ensured for labourers within 15 days...

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Lokpal paying Rs 50 lakh every month in rent to New Delhi's Ashoka Hotel -Ashok Bagriya

-Hindustan Times A reply under the Right to Information Act, recently, disclosed that “Lokpal is provisionally operating from the Ashoka Hotel. In the absence of a permanent office in the national capital, the country’s apex anti-corruption body, Lokpal, set up to look into complaints against public servants, pays a monthly rent of Rs 50 lakh to government-owned Hotel Ashoka for the office space it occupies in the five-star luxury hotel. A reply...

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Social activist Aruna Roy speaks to Anindo Dey (The Times of India)

-The Times of India blog Last week, NDA government succeeded in getting contentious amendments to RTI Act passed by Parliament. Social activist Aruna Roy, who was at the forefront of the movement to persuade Parliament to enact the original law, speaks to Anindo Dey about the development: * The government said the RTI Act amendments set right the anomaly of the Information Commissions, which are statutory bodies, being treated on a par...

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Aruna Roy, well-known social and political activist, interviewed by Jipson John and Jitheesh PM (Frontline.in)

-Frontline.in Interview with Aruna Roy. ARUNA ROY is a well-known social and political activist. A former Indian Administrative Service officer, she resigned from the IAS in 1975 and has since worked with the most oppressed in society. Aruna Roy’s observation on government service is indicative of her future concerns: “Everyone calls it an elite service; I always felt the discourse should be a bit better than what it was. I was shocked...

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