State governments will have to abide by stricter rules to receive money from the centre for the rural employment scheme in the next financial year 2011-12.

The centrally sponsored Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) has been one of the biggest drivers of rural consumption in the country.
Stricter measures of fund release might lead to lower transfer to states at

GANGTOK, March 20

state empowered to control scheme
NEW DELHI, 17 MARCH: To keep control over its flagship scheme ~ the much-hyped Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) ~ and to defeat its non-Congress regimes in various states, the Centre has given itself powers to check releasing funds due to ineffective implementation.

In a six-point instruction to states, the ministry of rural dev

The Supreme Court has warned it may step in if the Union government does not do anything to stop the alleged misappropriation of funds meant for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) in Orissa.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia asked the Centre to expeditiously decide on a CBI probe into the matter.

AGARTALA, March 10

March 6: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) is bringing about a silent revolution in rural areas in this drought-prone district. The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, inaugurated the programme in a remote village, Bandlapalli, in Anantapur district on February 2, 2006.