Finance Minister K. M. Mani told the Assembly on Tuesday that law allowing conversion of five per cent of plantations for cultivation of other crops and tourism would be implemented carefully.

“None would be allowed to misuse the law,” the Minister said while replying to the debate on the supplementary demands for grants for the current year. The Opposition had contended that the amendment to the Land Reforms Act, which received the assent of the President recently, would lead to conversion of more than 90000 acres of plantations.

Ranking list of districts on the basis of various public welfare works undertaken under Mahatma Gandhi NREGA for the month of June has been released.

Five years after the launch of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) on which the Centre has spent over `1,10,700 crores so far, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will release a comprehensive review of the performance of the flagship scheme on Saturday.

The release of the review report is coming at a time when the job demands within MNREGA have seen more than 20 per cent decline in the last financial year, while a number of states could not spend their allocated funds under the flagship scheme.

GUWAHATI: Bhubon Pegu, the General Secretary of Sanmilito Ganashakti, Assam slammed the government for the lack of a definite flood control policy and demanded it to publish a white paper on flood

Rural people will now have more work opportunities under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guaranty Act (MNREGA) Scheme-2 as more than 30 new work sectors have been added in the scheme.

AGARTALA: Union minister Jairam Ramesh has said 'Aadhaar' numbers, the unique 12-digit identification numbers given to residents of India, would be used to provide different social pensions, MGNREG

Jalandhar: A handful of agricultural scientists in Punjab may have found a solution to the problem of the state’s rapidly lowering groundwater level.