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• NREGS worker demands revised wages, is beaten to death

  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

  • 22/02/2011

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
    • Poverty
    • Anti-Poverty Programmes
    • Hazaribag (D)
    • Bokaro (D)
    • Giridih (D)
    • Bihar
    • Daltonganj

• Demand unsupplied

  Government says enough grain stock, farmers go hungry Budhi Rikisyan sat in her house making leaf plates for the last rites of her granddaughter, Mantawa. Unable to suppress hunger pangs, the 12-year-old girl plucked surbari leaves from the field and ate them in early August. After five days she was suffering from acute dysentery. She convulsed a few times and then died. Surbari, a weed,

  • 14/09/2009

  • • Agriculture
    • Food Supply
    • Natural Disasters
    • Drought
    • India
    • Jharkhand
    • Daltonganj
    • Uttar Pradesh
    • Kannauj (D)
    • Food Security
    • Corruption