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Bihar govt sacks 110 MNREGS officials for corruption

The Bihar government has sacked 110 officials of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme from service for corruption.Bihar Rural Development Minister Nitish Mishra on Thursday......

Bihar MNERGA shame: Corrupt babus eat up Rs 6,000 cr

Nearly 73 per cent of the funds allotted for the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in 38 districts of Bihar, between 2006 and 2012, have been embezzled by......

Maoists kill MGNREGA activist in Latehar

An activist working for the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme was killed after being mercilessly beaten by a group of 12 Maoists at Jerua village in Latehar district......

'There is a lot of scope for NREGA works'

Many regard the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the flagship welfare programme as the best scheme of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government. The act aims at enhancing the......

NREGA holds trigger for next green revolution

The governmentbelieves that the National Rural Employment GuaranteeScheme and its work in the areas of water management and crop enhancement would lead the country to a second Green Revolution.......

After employment schemes, it's time for rural housing

India is a land of diverse economic and social structure. The country has witnessed unprecedented growth in the last decade but rural development remains to be one of the biggest challenges.Despite......

'Strict action needed to stop corruption in NREGA'

Corrupt officials are killing rural employment programme, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, by overbilling and underpayment, says Sandip Sukhtankar, Assistant Professor,......

Job scheme to provide food, too

It is back to the 1970s as far as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is concerned. The job guarantee scheme is set to provide food grain as part of wages. The rural development......

MP funds for job scheme

Member of Parliament can now allocate funds from their local area development scheme kitty for rural employment guarantee programmes. The move that comes just ahead of Budget is aimed at providing......

'Nrega has not led to labour shortage'

Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh on Monday refuted the charge that National Rural Employment Guarantee Act had caused labour shortage in sectors like agriculture and......

People speak for rural employment guarantee scheme

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Q. Though suicides by financially distressed farmers continue to make news from Vidarbha there is another equally tragic, and persistent, story that refuses to go away. It is about deaths of children due to malnutrition in the tribal hill tracts of Melghat. The number of malnourished children in Melghat is startling. Comments plz.
: A. The zilla parishad health administration has identified 6,000 chidren as suffering from severe malnutrition in Melghat alone and 11,000 others were...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/though-suicides-by-financially-distressed-farmers-continue-t//answers/19134618

Q. MP's Salary Hike 300% whereas in some Rajasthan villages people working as labourers under NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme) are being exploited by their contractors by paying Re. 1(One rupee only) for their 8 hrs. work....! Can we so called "Learned common people" do really something to their cause...? If so, What and How we can we make open blind eyes of the state administration...?
Joey: A. we can open the eyes of administration, if it is really closed, but if these states act as if they are closed, we cannot open, sir more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/mps-salary-hike-300-whereas-in-some-rajasthan-villages-peopl/19134580/answers/17788483

Q. Will the present budget lay foundation for higher growth? Your views?
Rudrappa: A. "Short term pains for long term growth". That moreorless summarises the Finance Minister's budgetary exercise for fiscal 2010-2011....... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/will-the-present-budget-lay-foundation-for-higher-growth-you/17788469/answers/16663482

Q. Can edible fruit bearing trees in barren land and along side road make a difference to common man ? Can Govt. think it may safely avoid hunger death and malnutrition by this simple method ?
Good Citizen: A. You are dreaming of the "lost world" :) hope it will happen one day !!It will be better if Govt is keeping some stalls along road side...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/can-edible-fruit-bearing-trees-in-barren-land-and-along-side/16656750/answers/7659278

Q. What is the status of Panchayathraj.It completes 50yrs now?
Prabhat Kumar Kumar: A. Panchayati Raj in India today completed its Golden Jubilee today. 50 years ago on 2nd October, 1959, Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, the 1st Prime Minister...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/what-is-the-status-of-panchayathraj.it-completes-50yrs-now/7655238/answers/15697032

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Has Change really come to Bihar?

What is Change really like in Bihar? Once denounced as a failed state, what turnaround has Bihar made in recent years? Archana Masih reports from... ...

http://www.rediff.com/news/report/what-change-is-really-like-in-nitish-kumars-bihar/20130523.htm

Every fifth rural household in India benefits from MGNREGA, tweets PMO

The Prime Minister's Office today said that every fifth rural household in India has benefited from the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA scheme.It also tweeted... ...

http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/every-fifth-rural-household-in-india-benefits-from-mgnrega-tweets-pmo-113052400336_1.html

'Demographic dividend' disappointed by UPA, polls show

On the eve of India's United Progressive Alliance government completing four of its five-year tenure, several opinion polls showed that the people,... ...

http://www.domain-b.com/economy/Govt/20130523_demographic.html

The biggest job generation programme which gives rural poor right to work for 100 days annually, proved to be a vote-catcher ...

http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx?issue=91112013052300000000001001&page=9&article=5fb010e2-1ec1-4c42-8306-979bccc2eb64&key=GrzcE1rDsY0Emysgy5Nv3Q%3d%3d&feed=rss

Meet to monitor central schemes

Guwahati, May 22: The Assam State Flagship Programmes Monitoring Committee is holding a daylong convention on May 27 to assess the progress of... ...

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130523/jsp/northeast/story_16926163.jsp

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Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

News for Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Bihar govt sacks 110 MNREGS officials for corruption

Bihar MNERGA shame: Corrupt babus eat up Rs 6,000 cr

Maoists kill MGNREGA activist in Latehar

'There is a lot of scope for NREGA works'

NREGA holds trigger for next green revolution

After employment schemes, it's time for rural housing

'Strict action needed to stop corruption in NREGA'

Job scheme to provide food, too

MP funds for job scheme

'Nrega has not led to labour shortage'

People speak for rural employment guarantee scheme

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