6/19/2013: IN&AROUND: Funds from MNREGA to generate employment...

Fatehgarh Sahib deputy commissioner Arun Sekhri said Rs 41.3 lakh have been distributed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA). Presiding over a meeting of the district officials, the DC said a total of

Mincing no words, Union Rural Development Minister Minister Jairam Ramesh today told the Congress Government in Karnataka that grants for various central schemes would be withheld as done during the previous BJP regime if it does not deliver in implementing ...

If MNREGA at least has the virtue of making the poor consumers with choice, the Food Security Bill will convert the poor into mere supplicants of the state

) has scripted success story in Punjab villages, there are certain instances where the beneficiaries accuse the village heads of misusing money meant to be distributed to labourers . One such instance of a sarpanch not giving money to labourers came to light ...

In the wake of CAGs criticism of Jammu and Kashmir government over lapses in implementation of MNREGA, a state Assembly panel has recommended several measures to address the flaws in executing the scheme.

Coming down heavily on the way MNREGA has been implemented, govt auditor CAG has said irregularities were detected and works of over Rs 4000 crore were lying incomplete while projects undertaken for over Rs.2000 crore under the rural job scheme were ...

The Patna High Court offered cheers to millions of MNREGA workers in the state by restoring the MNREGA wages to Rs 144. The state government had reduced the wage from Rs 144 to Rs 138 starting April 1st 2013 affecting 20 lakh households who work in ...

Itanagar, May 25 (PTI) Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has assured Arunachal Pradesh that proposals under the MNREGA schemes which were submitted to his ministry would be immediately sanctioned. Ramesh, during a meeting with Chief ...

New Delhi: Social activist Aruna Roy has opted out of the UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi-led NAC after her term expired on Friday. She has blamed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for blocking minimum wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural ...