NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the States to put in place a mechanism to rigorously evaluate the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

He was speaking at a function on

HEARING THEIR GRIEVANCES: Villupuram Collector R.Palanisamy attending the gram sabha meeting at Nannadu in Cuddalore district on Thursday.

VILLUPURAM: Gram sabha meetings were held in Villupuram and Cuddalore districts to commemorate Gandhi Jayanthi on Thursday.

MARCEL, OCT 1

Thousand of unskilled workers employed in works undertaken by the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) across Tamil Nadu are agitated over the erosion of a substantial part of their daily wages.

NREGP SCAN
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi September 26, 2008, 0:51 IST

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) was meant for the poorest of the poor, those who will sweat it out in the heat for survival. Reports from villages where the scheme has been implemented suggest that might not always be true.

NREGP SCAN
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi September 25, 2008, 0:26 IST

It is now more or less universally acknowledged that there is substantial pilferage from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP).

NREGP SCAN
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi September 24, 2008, 0:18 IST

Mihir Shah

Any anti-poverty programme will work only if it leads to an end to dependence on doles. To end this dependence, sustainable livelihoods must be created for the poor.

TIRUCHI: Complaining of an acute shortage of labour for farm operations in the district, farmers