User: karuna Topic: NREGA
Category: National NREGA
Last updated: May 19 2013 04:32 IST RSS 2.0
 
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'Many using MGNREGS labour for their land shifting to horticulture' 19.5.2013 Top Stories
42% households that sought employment under MGNREGA and on whose land work was undertaken, did not come back to work on MGNREGA
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Rural wage hike plea on Ramesh table 18.5.2013 The Telegraph : Jharkhand
Ranchi, May 18: The state brass today urged Jairam Ramesh to increase the wages under the Centre's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
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Protocol to protect RTI activists in the works (Cached) 18.5.2013 Down to Earth

If a single panchayat-level activist can expose corruption worth Rs 25 lakh, then each needs protection for effective implementation of development schemes, reasons rural development ministry

The Union rural development ministry is working on a protocol that will protect  activists who work to expose corruption using the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Activists exposing corruption cases often face harassment from government officers and local goons, or are implicated in false cases. According to the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI), nearly 174 cases of murder and harassment of RTI activists have been recorded in the past four years.

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Dharwad district tops State in utilising MGNREGS grants 18.5.2013 deccanherald.com
Dharwad district tops State in utilising MGNREGS grants
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Ministry brings in amendment in MNREGA to protect whistleblowers (Cached) 17.5.2013 GovernanceNow: Top Stories
In what is expected to be a major step towards protecting whistleblowers who expose corruption in MNREGA, the Centre has brought in an amendment in the Act under which states would have to ensure safe
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Mitra claims rural job success (Cached) 17.5.2013 TOI: Calcutta Times
Mitra claims rural job success
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'Smart' cards: Jagjit Singh labourer in MP (Cached) 17.5.2013 TOI: Home
Many smart cards, carrying pictures of celebrities but having names of locals, have been found in Rewa.
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MGNREGA: Jairam Ramesh seeks Siddaramaiah's intervention (Cached) 16.5.2013 TOI: Bangalore Times
MGNREGA: Jairam Ramesh seeks Siddaramaiah's intervention
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MGNREGA: Jairam Ramesh seeks Siddaramaiah's intervention (Cached) 16.5.2013 TOI: Bangalore Times
MGNREGA: Jairam Ramesh seeks Siddaramaiah's intervention
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Lokayukta police await nod to prosecute officials caught red-handed 16.5.2013 Hindu: Home
The Lokayukta police is awaiting sanction from Mangalore University Vice-Chancellor to prosecute Anitha Ravishankar, the Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, who is accused of accep...
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Is NREGA Running Out of Steam? 16.5.2013 Forbes India

  The rural job scheme returned the UPA to power in 2009. But seven years on, itâe™s plagued by corruption and ineptitude Read more

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Phoney MGNREGS transactions in Chitradurga unearthed 16.5.2013 newindianexpress.com
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Rural job graft slur on official 16.5.2013 The Telegraph : Bihar
An additional district magistrate was arrested from Jamalpur in Munger district on Wednesday on the charge of siphoning off public funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Dharhara block of Munger district.
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NREGA study shows shift to horticulture 15.5.2013 Latest News
A study by UNDP and an NGO Sambodhini has recorded a shift from agriculture to horticulture in 11% of the beneficiaries of National Rural Employment Guarnatee Programme when they used the scheme to get labour on their own land
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Village selected for integrated watershed development project (Cached) 15.5.2013 TOI: All Headlines
Village selected for integrated watershed development project
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MNREGA wage rate hiked to Rs. 174 a day 15.5.2013 Hindu: Cities
The revision comes into effect from April 1
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MGNREGS wages revised 15.5.2013 Hindu: Home
The Union government has revised wages under its flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) from April 1 to factor in inflation. The maximum wage of Rs....
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On MNREGA pitch, Pune district scores a zero (Cached) 15.5.2013 Indian Express: Pune
Of the 1454 works sanctioned in the past three years, not a single project has been completed yet.
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Rural jobs scheme has benefited women, unskilled labourers the most 15.5.2013 Latest News
MNREGS, the UPA government's flagship rural employment guarantee scheme, has benefited women and unskilled labourers the most, an official said Tuesday.
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Rural jobs scheme has benefited women, unskilled labourers the most (Cached) 14.5.2013 New Kerala: India News
New Delhi, May 14 : MNREGS, the UPA government's flagship rural employment guarantee scheme, has benefited women and unskilled labourers the most, an official said Tuesday.
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