GANGTOK, July 20

India will have cut oil, food and and fertiliser subsidies and even consider raising their prices to touch 9 per cent growth in the coming years and put fiscal consolidation back on track. While the economy will grow 9 per cent in 2011-12, the terminal year of the Eleventh Plan (2007-08 to 2011-12), the average growth rate during the five-year period will be only 8.1 per cent.

The Finance Ministry has turned down a proposal for doubling the number of employment days guaranteed to below poverty line people under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). The Rural Development Ministry had proposed doubling the minimum days for employment from 100 to 200 days and also called for linking the wage rate to the annual inflation rate.

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New Delhi: The finance ministry has turned down a proposal for doubling the number of employment days guaranteed to below poverty line people under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA).

Assam, along with other northeastern States, have slipped in implementation of majority of the flagship programmes of the Ministry of Rural Development. This has emerged during the review of the performance of its flagship programmes by the Ministry on Friday.

The Ministry of Rural Development has convened a two-day meeting of the Performance Review Committee here at the ICAR Conference hall.

Kodagu Zilla Panchayat KDP meeting resolved to constitute a committee to probe into the alleged misappropriation in the purchase of banners and information boards which were installed in three taluks under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) here on Wednesday.

The decision was taken at a meeting held under the presidentship of ZP President V M Vijaya.

The Opposition members in the State Assembly today said that the White Paper submitted by the Chief Minister on State

ITANAGAR, July 14: MG-NREGA implementation in the State is set to receive a boost with the just concluded first ever training programme for representatives of media and Bar Council by SIRD here.

To provide employment to the BPL families and to improve the economic condition of the poor, a sum of Rs 102.37 lakh will be utilised in Kodagu district under Swarnajayanthi Grama Swarojgar Yojane (SGSY).

A conspiracy to siphon off MGNREGS funds to the tune of Rs 70 lakh by data manipulation has come to light in Jamkhandi taluk.

The Hirepadasalagi gram panchayat members have alleged that fake bills have been created by entering false data in the Management Information System (MIS) meant exclusively to maintain accounts of the job guarantee scheme.