ITANAGAR, July 12: The three-day Orientation cum Awareness Programme on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (MGNREGA 2005) for members of the Media, Bar Council and Government Lawyers began today at the conference hall of SIRD here.

Manish Sabharwal

The District Vigilance and Monitoring Committee has asked gram panchayats to implement the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) properly by increasing the registration of job seekers.

BHUBANESWAR: In every 100, 57 are poor in Orissa. It accounts for six per cent of the total poor in the country. However, this in no way has come in the way of the State to be counted as one among the fastest growing consumer electronic durables market in India.

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New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has a job at hand to save her imprimatur on the rural job scheme.

KOLKATA, 6 JULY: A day after the nationwide strike was observed by the Left parties to protest against the policies of the Centre, the CPI-M led state government has begun lobbying with the Union finance minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, to ensure funds under NREGA after it failed to meet the criteria set by the Centre to get fresh allocation.

BHUBANESWAR: Even as a recent report of the Central Employment guarantee council under the Ministry of Rural Development rapped the State Government for poor utilisation of fund in the flagship wage employment scheme under NREGS, there is marked improvement in the fund utilisation in the first quarter of the current financial year.

Kodagu District Vigilance and Monitoring Committee members visited Madikeri and Virajpet taluk and inspected progress of Centre funded projects in selected GPs, on Tuesday.

Shillong: Songsak MLA Nihim D Shira, alleged that the Gram Sevak of Natak Gram Sevak Circle, Songsak Development Block, Davies R Marak is demanding Rs 10,000 per project from the Village Employment Council (VEC) under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).