Jammu, Minister for Rural Development, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Sagar has said that State and Divisional level monitoring cells would be set up to ensure speedy and transparent implementation of MGNREGA.

The Minister was addressing the 3rd State Employment Guarantee Council meeting here today.

Calling for effective monitoring of the scheme at all levels, Mr.

The government has finally notified the draft rules empowering the Comptroller and Auditor General of India to audit the flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

Under the rules, the director, local fund audit or a chartered accountant empanelled with the CAG, shall audit the schemes under the MGNREGA.

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THE government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it had given its consent for a CBI probe into alleged corruption in the utilisation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) funds in Orissa.

"The consent to have an investigation into the alleged misappropriation and diversion of funds for the scheme has been given by the minister concerned (Ministry of Rural Development)," Addi

Rising farm wages, which have a major impact on food prices, may force the government to devise a blueprint in which agricultural work is included under a widened ambit of a government's flagship job surety scheme, a key government official said.

"We may need to come up with some sort of a special agreement for wage payment to beneficiaries working on farms since they are privately owned," Asho

Andhra Pradesh will be the first state to use National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) funds to provide road connectivity and improve hygienic conditions in remote areas inhabited by Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe people.

Rural connectivity has now been included in the permissible category of works under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA).

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A campaign to spread awareness on the MNREGS through two television commercials failed to penetrate the rural masses because of faulty planning, an impact assessment study by the Union Ministry of Rural Development has found.

The MNREGS awareness campaign was aired on cable and satellite channels in UP, Rajasthan, Bihar and the National Capital Region from January 23 to March 23, 2010.

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Of the 37 lakh (approx) job card holders under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) in Assam, only 16,473 job card holders could get 100 days employment in the year 2010-11, taking the coverage rate of the UPA Government flagship scheme to a meagre 0.56 per cent during the period.

Further, a total of 6,11,032 households got less than 15 days employment in the year which is 21