This refers to Guaranteeing unemployment (March 18), where you have poured scorn on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) and said that it is going to create more unemployment than the employment it is creating. This is pure fantasy on your part.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today called upon Opposition parties not to support Maoists directly or indirectly and to create a consensus against the ultras.
The Karnataka government has booked 78 cases against 113 officials on charges of irregularities and misappropriation of funds in works taken up under the NREG scheme, Minister for Rural development Jagadish Shettar informed the state assembly today.
The Centre today came down heavily on state governments over delay in payment of wages to NREGA workers and asked them ensure that it is done timely, and said they should understand the spirit of the Act and be "sensitive" towards its implementation.
A bank account free with unique identification number (UID) is how the government plans to sell its move to create a database of all citizens. Those who get the UID number will automatically get a bank account.
Information Infrastructure and Innovation Adviser to the Prime Minister Sam Pitroda on Wednesday said broadband penetration should connect 100 million people in the next five years from the current 10 million.