It was unique event. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has always been in focus since the Act was adopted in 2006.

Ubeshwar Vikas Mandal (UVM), an organisation of Bhil adivasis, has over the past two decades undertaken awareness raising, community organisation and protection and regeneration initiatives for pasturelands, forest areas and water bodies. The UVM-Svaraj project for small-height construction is the latest addition to these activities.

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has a mandate to guarantee 100 days of labour in a financial year to those registered under it, under various categories such as natural resource management, drought proofing, water harvesting and conservation, afforestation and tree planting, and horticulture activities.

BISWANATH Chariali, Sept 25: The State Minister for Irrigation, Fishery and Soil Conservation Nur Jamal Sarkar formally inaugurated the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in Sowaguri gaon panchayat under Biswanath Development Block by planting a sapling under social Forestation scheme at Rajgarh here.

JAMUGURIHAT, Sept 10

BY AMITA VERMA
LUCKNOW

The Uttar Pradesh Congress has asked the Central government to investigate into the misappropriation of funds allotted for NREGA in Uttar Pradesh.

The UP Congress is also sending a complaint to the rural development ministry in this regard.

Mihir Shah & Pramathesh Ambasta

The success of NREGA social audits in Andhra Pradesh covering 12 million people is a brilliant example of civil society action enriching mainstream politics.

12000 families registered under NREGA in Udhampur

KT NEWS SERVICE
UDHAMPUR, Sep 4: Over 12,000 families have been registered in the seven blocks of Udhampur district for ensuring 100 days of guarantee wage employment till August, 2008 under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA).
This was revealed during a meeting of officers of Rural Development Department held to review the physical and financial achievements registered during the current financial year under the chairmanship of District Development Commissioner, Udhampur, Ajay Khajuria, here on Thursday.

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GUWAHATI, Sept 4

New Delhi,Sept. 1: Comparing the achievements of UPA with that of previous NDA regime on the employment front, deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said, with flagship programme under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the government had been able to generate three times more jobs since it came to power.

Though, NREGA schemes were a great success and could be taken as talking points to market the achievements of the government, all states are not equal at the implementation level.

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