Poverty

Ramesh Writes to PM to Resolve Conflict between NREGS & Minimum Wages

The Centre may create a new category under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 for resolving the conflict with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 in implementaing wages rates.

Publication Date: 
07/11/2011
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Anti-Poverty Programmes, Ministry Of Rural Development, Andhra Pradesh, India, High Court, Karnataka
Food Policy

Revival of the public distribution system: Evidence and explanations

Contrary to a common belief that India’s public distribution system is irreparably dysfunctional, a nine-state survey of the pds finds that the respondents received 84-88% of their full entitlement. The implicit subsidy for households below the poverty line from pds foodgrains alone is roughly equivalent, in many states, to a week’s nrega wages every month. The revival of the pds can be traced, in large part, to a renewed political interest which manifests itself in state initiatives such as expanded coverage, reduced prices, computerisation of stock management, etc.

Publication Date: 
05/11/2011
Reetika Khera
Economic and Political Weekly
46
44-45
36-50
Tags:
Food Supply, India, Subsidies, Corruption, Bihar, Food Security, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa (Odisha), Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Poverty, Rice, Wheat, Food Prices, Millets, Maize
Economy

Fresh sparring between Congress and NCP over Ramesh's suggestion

Sparring over portfolios between the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party in Maharashtra has begun anew after Union Minister Jairam Ramesh's suggestion that the Rural Development Department

Publication Date: 
02/11/2011
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ministry Of Rural Development, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Anti-Poverty Programmes, Unemployment, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Water Conservation, Panchayats
Poverty

Rural employment diversification in India: Trends, determinants and implications on poverty

This paper has studied rural employment diversification in India and across major states using NSSO data at household level for the period 1983 and 2009-10. Factors affecting rural employment diversification towards non-farm sector have also been studied. Analysis has shown that the non-farm sector has consistently grown over time and employed nearly one-third of the rural workforce in 2009-10, as compared to merely one-fifth in 1983 at all-India level.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2011
Anjani Kumar, Sant Kumar, Dhiraj K. Singh & et al
Agricultural Economics Research Review
24
361-372
Tags:
Rural Poverty, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Anti-Poverty Programmes, India, Agriculture, Horticulture, Workers, Rural Development
Poverty

Now, Maya minister says Ramesh stalling NREGS

Days after Chief Minister Mayawati wrote to the Prime Minister, saying Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh had a political motive in seeking a CBI inquiry into the alleged fraud in the M

Publication Date: 
01/11/2011
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Anti-Poverty Programmes, Ministry Of Rural Development, Panchayats, Gautam Budha Nagar, Balrampur (D), Mirzapur (D)
Poverty

Free from poverty line

Number of people who can benefit from government’s welfare programmes is going to swell. Currently, the Central government caps the entitlements under most welfare programmes to those below the poverty line, which is as low as Rs 12/day/person for rural areas and Rs 18/day/person for urban areas.

Publication Date: 
31/10/2011
Richard Mahapatra
Down to Earth
20
11
Tags:
Anti-Poverty Programmes, Government Of India (GOI), India, Ministry Of Rural Development, Planning Commission, Poverty, Rural Poverty, Supreme Court
Poverty

Jairam playing politics, Maya writes to PM

Lucknow Four days after Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh wrote to her seeking “concurrence for a CBI probe” into alleged embezzlement of MNREGA funds in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minis

Publication Date: 
29/10/2011
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ministry Of Rural Development, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Anti-Poverty Programmes, NGO, Balrampur (D), Panchayats
Poverty

AP Govt to sanction 2.2 lakh houses for rural poor

The Andhra Pradesh Government proposes to sanction about 2.2 lakh houses of the six lakh proposed to be allocated during the Rachachabanda II programme, starting on November 2.

Publication Date: 
28/10/2011
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Housing Construction, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Sanitation, Drinking Water
Poverty

NREGS: UP dists spent crores on calendars, toys

In his letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, demanding a CBI inquiry into the alleged bungling of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) funds in the state, Uni

Publication Date: 
28/10/2011
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Anti-Poverty Programmes, Ministry Of Rural Development, Balrampur (D), Panchayats
Poverty

Jairam Ramesh cites multi-crore MNREGA scam in UP, warns of CBI inquiry

LUCKNOW: Five days after Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi accused Mayawati government in UP of mega-scale corruption in the centrally sponsored schemes, union rural development minister Jair

Publication Date: 
25/10/2011
Times of India (Lucknow)
Tags:
Ministry Of Rural Development, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Anti-Poverty Programmes, Banda (D), Chitrakoot (T), Corruption, Mid-Day Meal Programme

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