National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)

Dhanbad, Sept.

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Back in 2005, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), now called Mahatma Gandhi NREGS or MGNREGS, was offered as a tool to liberate Dalits and weaker sections in rural India by giving them employment. Five years down the line, a Union Ministry of Rural Development-sponsored investigation has found that the scheme has become “yet another instrument in the consolidation of the exi

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Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: Once lauded as a model state for implementation of MGNREGA — the flagship programme of the UPA government — the state is on the backfoot nowadays as far as the scheme is concerned. Even as the Opposition BJP and the ruling Congress try to extract political mileage out of sarpanches agitation, at stake is the very scheme that has not only reduced the migration of la

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BHUBANESWAR: Use of machines in place of labourers in NREGS works was detected by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) at many places in the State during the last financial year. Taking strong exception to the practice, the CAG maintained in its latest report that in Mayurbhanj and Jajpur districts unauthorised use machines like excavators in execution of works, as alleged by the public, w

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Implementation of the prestigious rural connectivity road scheme of the state government with construction of gravel roads in all 50 districts has begun. In the first phase of the scheme, construction process of 2700 roads has started. Under the scheme, 2676 roads with a length of 6118 km will be constructed. This will link more than 3200 villages which had so far no approach roads.

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LUCKNOW: Anomalies in the sale of certified seeds in Uttar Pradesh are touching new lows. A survey of NREGS implementation in Kanpur Dehat, conducted by member, state quality monitor, Vinod Shankar Chaubey, has brought to light largescale irregularities in the distribution and sale of certified seeds to beneficiaries of NREGS.

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Bhopal, Aug 30: Forest Minister Shri Sartaj Singh has asked the officers to find out the possibilities of associating the forest committees with public distribution system. The Forest Minister was reviewing the department's activities at the office of the Chief Conservator of Forests, Shahdol, on Saturday.

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The state government has prepared a strategy to provide 100-day job to 10 lakh most deprived families under Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in this fiscal. "These targeted 10 lakh people would include 5 lakh the most poor families and the rest, 5 lakh, would be women," Secretary Rural Development Manoj Singh said here on Sunday. He said to start with the

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Charanjit Ahuja Chandigarh: The Himachal Pradesh government has been able to cover 78% of its rural population under rural employment guarantee scheme. Sources in the rural development department told FE “the rural department has earmarked Rs 909 crore during the 2010-11 fiscal to cover another 4.5 lakh families under the scheme.

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Shoumojit Banerjee This will speed up payment of wages under employment guarantee scheme PATNA: In a major step to alleviate delays in wage payments under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday launched an “e-Shakti Financial Inclusion” scheme – the first of its kind in the country. The scheme aims at providin

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