Jaipur: Investigation by government officials into Re 1 being paid as wages to NREGA workers at Gudaliya village in Tonk district have brought to the fore large-scale anomalies.

Dilemma over payment of minimum wages to labourers engaged under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) continues even after both the Central and the state governments having accepted that the prescribed wages should be given.
Activist Aruna Roy and her team have been staging a sit-in protest at the Statue Circle since October 2 demanding for an increase in the minimu

DHENKANAL: Despite shortcomings in MGNREGS like low wage and interference of middlemen, functioning of the scheme in Dhenkanal is satisfactory, said Dipak Bhattacharya, advisor to Government of India on NREGA, at a press meet here recently.

He visited a number of blocks and reviewed the scheme at a meeting.

Bhattacharya visited villages in Odapada, Hindol, Sadar and Gondia blocks and interac

LUCKNOW: Principal secretary forest Chanchal Kumar Tiwari has directed forest department officials to speed up plantation work under MNREGS so that the set targets can be achieved.

ARNARAM POONAR & SUJATA RAGHAVAN Charkha Features

THE definition of poverty has been at the core of discussions and commitments at the international level to address it and, by a logical conclusion, to eradicate it. This intent is the basis for the lofty Millennium Development Goals adopted by the UN member-states and international organisations at the beginning of this century.

SRINAGAR, Oct 6: Cutting across the party lines, members in the Legislative Assembly today voiced their concern over the shortage of staff at the ground level to implement the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the State.

However, Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Ali Mohammad Sagar informed the House that now the Additional Deputy Commissioners

Oct. 5: To avoid graft in the implementation of the Nat-ional Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), e-muster olls will be launched for job seekers in the state from November 1. The implementation of NREGS has been facing a lot of criticism of graft ever since it was introduced a few years ago.

While promising to release a sum of Rs 500 crore to keep the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) running in West Bengal at the earliest, the team from the Union rural development ministry that met the state panchayat minister today forced the state to frame a policy before disbursing further allotment to the districts under the scheme.

The Central team, led by it

Jaipur: Activists at the ongoing mazdoor satyagraha near the Statue Circle here have demanded that the government first initiate action on complaints of anomalies which emerged during the audit of NREGS in the state and thereby set an example of a transparent system before discussing about the virtues of the rural employment scheme at the collectors