Ferozepur: In a significant development, which will improve the irrigation system, the state government has sanctioned funds to the tune of Rs 23 crore for cleanling up all canals and distributaries crisscrossing the state.

Due to choking of canals and its distributaries in absence of cleanliness, the breach in their banks has become a common occurrence in different parts of Malwa region.

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Under pressure from civil society groups to increase the wages of the MGNREGA workers, the rural development ministry has sought clarification from the finance ministry on the issue.

In order to decentralise the planning, implementation and monitoring processes of the MGNREGA works, the government is planning a national strategic framework using the geographical information system (GIS).
The move will help the rural development ministry bring in greater transparency and accountability in the implementation of the act as real time data would be available to it.
The use of GIS

Jaipur: Investigation by government officials into Re 1 being paid as wages to NREGA workers at Gudaliya village in Tonk district have brought to the fore large-scale anomalies.

ANAND K. SAHAY
PATNA
Oct.

Dilemma over payment of minimum wages to labourers engaged under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) continues even after both the Central and the state governments having accepted that the prescribed wages should be given.
Activist Aruna Roy and her team have been staging a sit-in protest at the Statue Circle since October 2 demanding for an increase in the minimu

DHENKANAL: Despite shortcomings in MGNREGS like low wage and interference of middlemen, functioning of the scheme in Dhenkanal is satisfactory, said Dipak Bhattacharya, advisor to Government of India on NREGA, at a press meet here recently.

He visited a number of blocks and reviewed the scheme at a meeting.

Bhattacharya visited villages in Odapada, Hindol, Sadar and Gondia blocks and interac

SRINAGAR, Oct 6: Cutting across the party lines, members in the Legislative Assembly today voiced their concern over the shortage of staff at the ground level to implement the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the State.

However, Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Ali Mohammad Sagar informed the House that now the Additional Deputy Commissioners

Buoyed by the visit of the central leaders, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Assam Pradesh is concentrating on improving its image in rural Assam right now as it is almost final that the saffron party is going to fight it out alone in the coming Assembly elections.

It needs to be mentioned here that the party has already launched its election campaign and the rebuff from the AGP party who chos