The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been extended to all 604 districts of the country from Tuesday.

Announcing the extension of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme to all the rural districts in the country from today, Minister for Rural Development Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said that his

maharashtra is planning to amend the state employment guarantee act to divert the reserve fund to other projects. The move comes when the union government is trying to fortify the National Rural

Union rural development minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has put the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) under the scanner, in order to plug loopholes and to make it foolproof, as the s

"At the current pace, on each day of the year, 290 habitations are provided with drinking water,' announced the government in the Budget session to showcase the "impressive progress' made under the UPA's flagship Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission (RGDWM) meant to provide "safe and sustainable drinking water sources' to villages. What the Government glossed over is the official reality check

In the wake of a CAG report pointing to "significant deficiencies' in the implementation of UPA Government's flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme, the Union Rural Development Ministry has decided to keep all the In a recent letter to all MPs, Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad has informed them about the new steps taken by his Ministry in this regard and requested their active engagement in the implementation of the scheme in their respective constituencies. According to sources, the Ministry, in collaboration with National Informatics Centre, has developed a software which can segregate data on the schemes for each districts. This data would then be e-mailed to MPs on a monthly basis from February onwards. In the beginning, the Ministry will send the monthly reports on its three main schemes

CAG report points to lapses in NREGP

five union ministries are jointly planning a waste-to-energy plant in India. The plant will come up in a large city and will be modelled after the pilot plant in Hyderabad which is said to