The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the UPA

Shoumojit Banerjee

Katihar (BIHAR):

300 cases already this year; maximum in CM

KOLKATA, 14 March: After doing much better in terms of providing jobs to the rural populace under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the state panchayat and rural development department may face trouble to provide jobs to the villagers in the first quarter of the next financial year owing to a severe crisis of funds.

The workers of diamond industry in Gujarat's city Surat who were rendered jobless in the wake of the global slowdown have found their saviour in the form of NREGA.

NAGAON, March 14: The National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme was introduced in Nagaon district including Barhampur, Kathiatoli and Khagarijan Development Block under the Barhampur LAC since the year 2007.

The economist and political commentator who was appointed to a four-member team of the UN to recommend reforms to the global financial system critiques Budget 2010

There is a reason why most interventions in rural India

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee

New Delhi: For the first time ever each landless worker employed under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) will find positive movements in the share market indices something to croon over. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has introduced an expenditure category in Budget 2010-11 that makes the link transparent.