In order to make the works under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme gender-friendly, the Union Rural Development Ministry is planning to advise the States to make available women-friendly tools for the workers of the fair sex.

The idea is to ensure women workers

The Lokpal system will shortly be implemented in Madhya Pradesh for ensuring transparency in the work process of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNRGES).

''A separate computer room will be provided to each village panchayat building in 23,000 panchayats and job cards will be renewed to those MFNRGES districts that have completed five years,'' state Panchayat and

Likely To Set Up Mechanism To Look Into Charges Of Corruption

New Delhi: The Centre may have spent over Rs 95,000 crore under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) to generate hundreds of crores of work-days for poor in rural areas, but allegations of largescale corruption made the Supreme Court on Friday think about putting in place a monitoring mechanism.

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AMIT AGNIHOTRI
NEW DELHI

The rural develop ment ministry came in for some sharp criticism over the implementation of UPA flagship MGNREGA from activists like Aruna Roy and Jean Dreze.

Both Ms Roy and Mr Dreze have been involved with the MGNREGA since its inception in 2006.

Social activists have alleged that the UPA government is undermining the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) by modifying several provisions in the law.

The concerns were raised by activists Jean Dreze, Aruna Roy, Nikhil De, Annie Raja and Reetika Khera at a press conference, here.

Last week, the government had declared that it will not link the Minimum Wage Act to NREGA wages.

A special audit carried out by the Rajasthan government has detected irregularities adding up to Rs 6.2 crore in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in 30 panchayats spread over nearly all districts of the state.

The audit focussed on just the material expenditure component, and was carried out in panchayats in which this component was large, chosen to c

The Kodagu Zilla Panchayat has submitted a proposal to the government seeking Rs five crore additional sanction for the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), despite the fact that the district is lagging behind in its implementation.

A total of Rs 9.04 crore was sanctioned for the district for the implementation of MGNREGS in 2010-11.

New Delhi: Members of the National Advisory Council (NAC) Aruna Roy and Jean Dreze have accused the UPA government of being

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