BARPETA: Though the Government has initiated a number of development and employment-generating projects, yet due to the lack of commitment and indefferent attitude of a section of officers and politicians, a large number of such projects undertaken in Barpeta district have either been abandoned or are laying half done.

New Delhi: The government is in no mood to pare the wage rates under its flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme despite the strain on the exchequer, due to substantial hikes in minimum wages by states during the last two years and concerns that higher wage rates led to ineffective targeting.

New Delhi: With the government riding on the growing importance of the flagship programme,

New Delhi: A new study on evaluating the performance of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the flagship programme of the UPA government, has recommended that the wage rate offered to workers under the scheme should be cut by up to a fifth to ensure effective targeting. It has, however, said the number of guaranteed days of employment should be increased to 120 from 100 now.

DIBRUGARH, May 12: Six Panchayats under Tengakhat Development received twenty-six lakh sixty four thousand rupees under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) scheme. The money will be spent in the implementation of eight government schemes in the area. Meanwhile, work on the houses of nine hundred and seven beneficiaries under Indira Awas Yojana is going on in full swing.

Performance, promises and prospects: A comparison of the election manifestos of the Congress, the BJP and the CPI(M).

Mihir Shah

The concepts of multiplier and accelerator borrowed from macroeconomic theory illuminate the enormous potential of NREGA and help set standards that it must be judged by.

Chief Justice of India Justice KG Balakrishnan today said that onus is on the Government, administration, volunteers and the non-government organisations (NGOs) to effectively implement the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 2005 in the North-east, which would go a long way in improving the condition of the rural population in the region.