AMBARISH B.

Raids by Lokaytukta officials on two gram panchayats in Bengaluru have uncovered one of the biggest scams in the country under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) officials said on Wednesday.

Officials and contractors in two gram panchayats -Chunchanakuppe and K.

MUKESH RANJAN

Sources in the commission pointed out that the MGNREGA is unlikely to get any increase in budgetary support

Concerned that the government

Jan. 20: Price rise will not become an issue in rural areas. This is because of the NREGA which has increased purchasing power of rural poor across the country. This is the assessment of the Congress at a time when the Opposition plans to launch an agitation over the rise in price of essential commodities.

AMIT AGNIHOTRI

Targeting the Leftruled West Bengal government for misuse of NREGA funds, minister of state for rural development Sisir Kumar Adhikari has asked Cabinet minister C.P. Joshi to look into the matter.

Jamshedpur, Jan. 19: The first meeting of the district managing council at the collectorate today took a look at various development measures to be undertaken in East Singhbhum.

MUKESH RANJAN

If the Planning Commission has its way, then the allocations for such schemes under the rural development ministry would not see any change in the Budget for 2010-11 from that of the last year

Delay in payment of wages is proving to be the biggest block in the implementation of UPA flagship NREGA.
"I think delay in payment of wages to NREGA workers is the biggest problem.
We are unable to handle it," Union minister for rural development C.P. Joshi said on Monday.

BHUBANESWAR: Caught in the crossroads of a mineral-based development path, which takes a toll on its natural resources, the Orissa Government has set itself an ambitious plan to get back its forest cover.

Its revised five year perspective plan envisages afforestation over 10 lakh hectare degraded forests so as to bring back the high forests again.

Ganjam stands second in implementation of the programme

BERHAMPUR: A two-day national workshop on implementation of NREGA was inaugurated at Chatrapur in Ganjam district on Wednesday.

The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) has organised this workshop in collaboration with the Ganjam district administration.