New Delhi: Impressed with work done by Gujarat in use of geographic information system, a central expert group has recommended the state

Arvind Mayaram

While there is all-round concern about how the NREGA funds are being utilised at the grass-roots level, the Union rural development ministry has initiated the process of inducting technology to streamline the delivery system under NREGA.

AMIT AGNIHOTRI
NEW DELHI

In a major decision, the government has decided to factor in high inflation, which has hit the poor hard, in the MGNREGA wages by linking them to the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

NAC member Jean Dreze, who also happens to be one of the architects of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), had suggested to the rural development min istry

KOLKATA, 20 SEPT: After a charge was levelled against the state government stating that it has failed to utilise Central funds allotted under NREGA, the state panchayats and rural development department has decided to use the meeting called by the Centre to discuss the future policies of panchayats as a platform to counter the allegation.
Congress general secretary Mr Rahul Gandhi and the Union m

rajesh shukla

Most discussions on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) have focused on one of few things, the leakages in the implementation of the scheme, the inadequate number of jobs created, and some even talk of how NREGA has resulted in food inflation going up in various districts as well as increasing mechanisation due to unavailability of farm labour.

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Jaipur: Social audit and food security may seem strange bedfellows but not if a report of the United Nation

jowai:The Rangbah Shnong of Nongjngi- Khliehshnong, Jaintia Hills lodged a complaint against the Village Employment Committee (VEC) Chairman and Secretary for alleged misappropriation and improper implementation of NREGA funds and projects.

Earlier, a group of villagers under the leadership of the Rangbah Shnong, Oren War sought the details on the implementation of NREGA within the village unde

THE Centre has approved a proposal for recruitment of 10 lakh technically-qualified personnel for execution of rural development programmes of gram panchayats.

A brainchild of rural development minister C P Joshi, who also holds the reins of the panchayati raj ministry, the move is expected to strengthen panchayati raj institutions, while creating a back-up machinery for various rural devel

RAJASTHAN

JAMMU, Sept 6: Minister of State for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Law, Parliamentary Affairs, Haj and Auquaf, Ajaz Ahmed Khan today held a meeting of Rural Development Department, Jammu division to review the physical and financial status of implementation of flagship scheme "MGNREGA"

The Minister directed the low performing districts to gear up their field functionaries to achieve the de