-Down to Earth bathua is in demand for its nutrition and taste. Improved varieties of the weed can make it popular among farmers Come winters, and vegetable markets in Delhi are flooded with varieties of leafy greens. Among these vegetables is one hitherto unwanted weed, foraged from wheat fields. Commonly known as bathua in Hindi, cheel bhaji in Gujarati, paruppu keerai in Tamil, chandanbethu in Bengali and vastuccira in Malayalam, this weed is...
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MGNREGS tips for rural staff
The district administration on Friday acquainted block and panchayat employees with the provisions of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in a bid to curb unfair practices in the central project. The move has been taken by the administration after Union rural development secretary B K Sinha expressed dissatisfaction over MGNREGS work during his recent visit here. Sinha had visited bathua village in Chas Block to inquire into...
More »Negligence in supervision of MGNREGS work comes to fore
The visit of Union rural development secretary, B K Sinha, to inquire into the killing of MGNREGS worker Subal Mahto here at bathua village on Sunday has not only exposed serious irregularities in the schemes but also negligence on part of officials in supervising the work. Sinha s visit seems to have been prompted after Bokaro DC Amitabh Kaushal took action against four persons including two officials in this regard. Kaushal...
More »MNREGA worker killed for demanding wages
An MGNREGA worker was allegedly thrashed-to-death by his contractor for demanding wages for the well digging work he had done at bathua village under Harla police station here on Sunday. Sources said the deceased, Subal Mahto (50), a resident of bathua, was assigned the task of digging a well along with four others under the MNREGA scheme at his village by the contractor, Bhaghirath Rajwar. They had been asked by...
More »NREGS worker demands revised wages, is beaten to death by Manoj Prasad
A 50-year-old labourer, Subal Mahato, was allegedly beaten to death by his employer for demanding revised wages in accordance with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), in Bokaro on Saturday night. According to NREGA Commissioner Ajay Kumar Singh, Mahato, a resident of bathua village under Chas block in Bokaro district, was one of the nine workers hired to dig a well. The project, sanctioned for 2010-11, was undertaken...
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