A campaign to spread awareness on the MNREGS through two television commercials failed to penetrate the rural masses because of faulty planning, an impact assessment study by the Union Ministry of Rural Development has found.

The MNREGS awareness campaign was aired on cable and satellite channels in UP, Rajasthan, Bihar and the National Capital Region from January 23 to March 23, 2010.

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The government

Jammu: Keeping in view the Opposition

New Delhi: A pilot survey finding that 25-30% of the rural population can be automatically excluded from food security entitlements for below poverty line population might help forge a consensus between the government and the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council.

The

BHUBANESWAR: The Government has set a target to construct 230 bridges in 201112 out of which 105 will be taken up under state plan.

State governments will have to abide by stricter rules to receive money from the centre for the rural employment scheme in the next financial year 2011-12.

The centrally sponsored Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) has been one of the biggest drivers of rural consumption in the country.
Stricter measures of fund release might lead to lower transfer to states at

KOLKATA: The poor aged people, residing in 91 blocks across the districts of West Bengal, could not be brought under the state government's scheme to provide cooked food to them due to various reasons, including lack of initiative from panchayat authorities, Mr Anisur Rahman, state panchayat and rural development minister, told the Assembly today.

He was answering a question raised by DSP MLA M

The Manmohan Singh government came under Opposition attack over its

With political parties across the spectrum asking the government to conduct a socio-economic survey of different communities, the government is considering clubbing the below poverty line (BPL) survey with the caste census.