National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)

Faridkot Deputy Commissioner Dr S Karuna Raju has expressed dissatisfaction over the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) in the district.

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WEST Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee came down heavily on the Centre on Tuesday for not releasing funds to his government to implement the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in the state and said that the state had to suffer a lot for this. The chief minister also described the alleged nexus between the Trinamool Congress and Maoists as a dangerous force and vowed to

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AGARTALA, Aug 30: The Tripura Government has initiated a new project of tea cultivation by creating man-days under the NREGA scheme. “We want to create man-days by creating permanent assets and this project of tea plantation is one of them,” said Tripura Industries & Commerce Minister Jitendra Chowdhury after inaugurating a project at Kalkrisnanagar Gaonsabha area in West Tripura district yes

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Corrective Action Needed In Min Wage Violation Cases: Aruna Roy Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: Taking a strong exception to payment of wages less than the prevailing minimum wage in the state for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers, Magsaysay awardee and member of the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC) Aruna Roy has appealed to members of the council

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China has sought information on India’s poverty reduction programmes, including the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, to beef up its own strategy. A Chinese delegation that met Union Rural Development Minister C P Joshi today said the way India has weathered the economic meltdown without suffering much damage, has led them to enquire into poverty reduction programmes li

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District administration says the workers were paid wages according to the work they did Jaipur: Around 100 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) workers, engaged in digging a stretch of land for the past 13 days were paid a paltry Re1 per day as wages with the district administration, justifying the payment saying it was a small area collectively dug by workers. Acc

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FOR 11 days, 99 people toiled to dig a check-dam under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in To nk district of Rajasthan. But when it came to wages, they were paid only Rs 11 — Re 1 for each day of labour.

The Rs 11-payment was decided by a Junior Engineer who inspected the work site.

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The state machinery has failed to act against corruption in at least 28 panchayats, one each in all districts, in utilisation of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA). The recovery of over Rs6.18 crore is due towards the programme officers, sarpanches, village secretaries, engineers and other officials in these panchayats since the special teams conducted

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Former Union Panchayat Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, lately in the news for denouncing the Commonwealth Games, is aiming his guns much closer to the UPA government’s heart, at the way it is implementing the flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). He is joining forces with like-minded critics of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) such as economist-actvist J

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