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The bazaar view of development
There is a reason why most interventions in rural India — by the government and companies — struggle. They underestimate how rural communities will respond. To elaborate, the recently concluded panchayat elections in Chhattisgarh saw a new trend. Wannabe sarpanches spent far more than before on campaigning.
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- 04/03/2010
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- Economic Times (New Delhi)
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NREGA to gain from market buoyancy
Subhomoy Bhattacharjee
New Delhi: For the first time ever each landless worker employed under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) will find positive movements in the share market indices something to croon over. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has introduced an expenditure category in Budget 2010-11 that makes the link transparent.
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- 03/03/2010
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- Financial Express (New Delhi)
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NREGA Kerala style: With trade unions
UNDER the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), an adult member of every rural household in India has the right to demand a minimum of 100 days of work in a year. In Kerala, the scheme’s beneficiaries are exercising another inalienable right—the right to form trade unions.
- Date:
- 18/02/2010
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- Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Centre to provide jobs to youth NREGA
AMIT AGNIHOTRI
The UPA government is planning to provide jobs to over 2.5 lakh youth by appointing Lok Karmis in each Gram Panchayat to facilitate the implementation of its flagship MGNREGA.
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- 17/02/2010
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- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Rajasthan panels on job schemes
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government has appointed standing committees at the panchayat level in the middle of the current panchayat elections in the State to ensure smooth and effective implementation of schemes under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and entrusted important responsibilities to them.
- Date:
- 11/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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India’s poor felt pain of global crisis
34M More Poor Than There Would’ve Been At Pre-Slowdown Growth Rate
It’s a myth that the global financial crisis left India virtually unscathed. In fact, India is the biggest victim of financial crisisinduced poverty, according to data obtained by TOI from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ (UNDESA). Check out these figures.
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- 10/02/2010
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Centre to appoint Lok Karmis under MGREGA
K. Balchand
NEW DELHI: The Centre has set in motion the process to appoint Lok Karmis and Lok Sevaks for the proper implementation of Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment guarantee Act (MGREGA).
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- 10/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Farmers protest against irrigation fee
Amritsar: Amid drizzle, farmers of the region, under the tutelage of the Kisan Sangharsh Committee (KSC), held a protest in front of the Canal Office here today.
They were protesting against the government for imposing irrigation fee and its inability in providing irrigation water from canals to their cultivable land in the region.
- Date:
- 09/02/2010
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- Tribune (New Delhi)
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MGNREGA excellence award for Mayurbhanj
BARIPADA: Mayurbhanj, predominantly inhabited by tribals, has bagged Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guaratee Act (MGNREGA) excellence award for 2008-09.
- Date:
- 09/02/2010
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- New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
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Biometrics, e-attendance to plug NREGA loopholes
THE government is likely to introduce biometrics cards and electronic attendance systems from next fiscal to plug the leakages in its flagship employment scheme NREGA, even as it looks to step up allocation for the scheme sharply to Rs 45,000 crore.
- Date:
- 09/02/2010
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- Economic Times (New Delhi)
