THE National Advisory Council (NAC), led by Sonia Gandhi, will get down to business this week itself with the Congress leadership finalising a list of 10 members. While four members of the previous NAC

A working group on NREGA asks for indexing wages to the farm wage index, besides reducing work hours

A working group on NREGA asks for indexing wages to the farm wage index, besides reducing work hours.

AMIT AGNIHOTR
NEW DELHI

Rural development May 28: Rural development minister C.P. Joshi has ordered a probe into the reported misuse of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) funds by the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government.

Aarthi Ramachandran NEW DELHI

PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh complimented his government on the progress of flagship programmes in his opening statement at the national press conference held recently, but was candid about challenges related to their implementation.

The state cabinet in its meeting today endorsed the action plan for linking all the villages with roads in Madhya Pradesh by the year 2013 under Mukhya Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, MNREGA and BRGF.

Irrigation, horticulture and land development works have been undertaken in 62.5 lakh hectare private land of reserved and backward class people in the State under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREG).

The concept of eminent citizens monitoring MGNREGA was introduced after the government realised that independent supervision was necessary to resolve the difficul
In order to improve transparency in its flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the rural development ministry is all set to involve eminent citizens in monitoring the job scheme.

Kolkata: The West Bengal Government has set an expenditure target of Rs.3,050 crores for implementing the 100 days' work programme for rural people under the Centre's flagship programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).

More days of work

MUMBAI: State rural development minister Jayant Patil stunned participants at a national seminar on the agrarian crisis here this week when he admitted that Maharashtra was lagging behind in the implementation of the prestigious Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) because its "bureaucracy found the transparency clauses in it too much of a bother".