Poverty

MNREGA graft cases: 500 officials punished in State

A total of 500 officials in the State have been punished by authorities for their involvement in alleged irregularities in the entre

Publication Date: 
11/07/2011
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Anti-Poverty Programmes, Bhopal (D), Panchayats
Poverty

NREGA flops, Sunderbans tribals return to haria biz

Lack of implementation of 100 days job guarantee scheme under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in several blocks of the Sunderbans, has forced a large number of tribals to engage themselves in haria (hooch) manufacturing units to earn their living.

Tribals here who had earlier been roped in under various NREGA schemes later disassociated themselves from the hooch-manufacturin

Publication Date: 
11/07/2011
Statesman (Kolkata)
Tags:
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Sundarbans, Poverty, Tribals
Economy

Dont shoot the messenger

An official tirade has been unleashed against official data on employment. But why? (Editorial)
 

Publication Date: 
09/07/2011
Economic and Political Weekly
46
28
7
Tags:
Government Of India (GOI), India, Unemployment, Women, Informal Sector, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Agriculture, Drought, Economy
Food Policy

G-20 Offers Solutions to Cool Food Prices

We are becoming more selfish, not less. As food, fuel and fibre become increasingly expensive it

Publication Date: 
04/07/2011
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Prices, India, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Economy
Economy

Govt conducts survey to study standard of living

The Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation

Publication Date: 
02/07/2011
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Tags:
Economy, People, Urban Habitat, Unemployment, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)
Poverty

Civil Society Opposes Sarpanch Auditing Own Work Under NREGA

Civil society groups have opposed a government proposal to rid its flagship rural jobs guarantee programme of malpractices, saying the plan is

Publication Date: 
02/07/2011
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Anti-Poverty Programmes, India, Anna Hazare, Gram Sabhas, Ministry Of Rural Development
Agriculture

Changes in agrarian relations since Independence

Agriculture continues to be the predominant component of the national economy and a principal means of livelihood for two thirds of country's population living in the rural areas. Hence, it occupies central stage in the Indian economy and the Government of India places high priority on reducing poverty by raising agricultural productivity.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2011
A. B. Bardhan
Think India
14
3
157-164
Tags:
Agriculture, India, Land Acquisition, Farmers, Conflicts, Contract Farming, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), Agricultural Inputs, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Dryland Farming, Rural Development
Agriculture

Thirty years ago... thirty years ahead...a farmer's perspective

India's economic success has been remarkable; India's agricultural success will follow. Rural India still needs nurturing, not necessarily by just extra funding, but with vision and leadership addressing issues, with down to earth, workable solutions.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2011
Feroze N. Masani
Think India
14
3
149-156
Tags:
Agriculture, Farmers, India, Israel, Floriculture, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Horticulture, Agricultural Research, Agricultural Machines, Land Reforms, Land Acquisition, Globalisation, Biotechnology, Climate Change
Poverty

Valley of food insecurity and chronic hunger

This is a report from Office of the Advisor to the Supreme Court Commissioners on food-nutrition insecurity and starvation in 15 villages of Alirajpur district, Madhya Pradesh displaced due to the Sardar Sarovar Project.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2011
Sachin Kumar Jain, Rolly Shivhare, Madhukar, & et al
Office of the Advisor to the Supreme Court Commissioners
Tags:
Food Security, Malnutrition, Madhya Pradesh, Narmada Valley Project, Displacement, Public Distribution System (PDS), National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Poverty, Health Effects, Supreme Court, Rehabilitation
Economy

Strategies for Assam budget

Ministers handling various departments in Assam submitted individual strategy papers, outlining various innovative and pragmatic schemes, to chief minister Tarun Gogoi this morning.

The strategy papers were prepared in accordance with Gogoi

Publication Date: 
28/06/2011
Telegraph (North East)
Tags:
Budget, Economy, Development, Panchayats, Rural Development, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)

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