Ramesh for granting states discretion over 50% of funds for central schemes.

In the last five years, only 60% of MGNREGA work completed y Authorities fail to utilise funds allotted under the scheme.

The Government has announced the creation of six projects in public-private partnership mode in non-timber forest produce (NTFP), covering around 60 Naxal-affected districts in the country.

Non-Congress states have performed better in the MGNREGA corruption index. The Supreme Court has “officially” declared corruption in the 2G case. All licences stand cancelled.

Calling for increasing the wage rate under MGNREGA, the Minister for Development, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Mohammad Sagar today said that the same is necessary to bail out the St

The sixth anniversary of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) saw the government promising reforms in the scheme, which has been criticised for delays in wage payments and depleting farm labour.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the scheme could usher in a second green revolution through land development and irrigation facilities. He was, however, silent on demands to extend the scheme to mainstream agricultural activities.

Welfare schemes such as the ICDS should be tracked with imaginative use of information technology. People visiting India often carry a paradoxical impression about this great nation.

Dharamsala: The simple technology developed by CSK Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur, has found few takers among farmers of the state.

BANKURA/PURULIA, 24 JAN: Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh today granted Rs 2,000 crore for providing safe drinking water to the people of Bankura district.