The National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) scheme has virtually hit the cross roads in South Goa with funds allocated to the panchayat bodies remaining unutilized and the Centre rejecting the Rural Development Agency

Calling for transparency in the government

S.S. NEGI
NEW DELHI

Taking note of the reports of massive corruption in country

New Delhi: Government

Anantapur, April 7: The government has decided to divert about Rs 100 crore of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) funds to construct roads in rural areas in Anantapur district.
The Zilla Parishad will assign these works to contractors under the nomination process instead of inviting tenders.

IN WHAT could strengthen hands of those who maintain that NREGA programme was not being implemented properly, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that the money earmarked for the project was not percolating down to the intended beneficiaries.

OK With FSA Grain Outlay At 35kg

New Delhi: With a ministerial panel asking Planning Commission to finalize the number of BPL families in the country who would be eligible for subsidized rations under the Food Security Act, the Plan panel is likely to settle for the figures put forward by the Tendulkar committee

Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today indicated his willingness to endorse the poverty data suggested by the Tendulkar Committee for the ambitious Food Security Bill. The states are likely to be unhappy if the below poverty line (BPL) population of nearly 38 per cent (as estimated by the committee) is accepted by the Plan panel as it would lower their own estimates.

THE UPA government

Study finds flaws in system

SHILLONG: Lack of technical staff, non-posting of regular BDOs, non-compliance of guidelines and demand of bribe by banks have been the bane in the implementation of the poverty alleviation programmes in Meghalaya.

This was disclosed in an "evaluation study" of National Rural Employment Generation Scheme (NREGS) at the instance of the State government.