Manipur Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh has stressed on proper implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), which was launched in all nine districts of the state.

The judgment one reaches on what the current year's Budget will do for farmers will vary depending on whether its provisions are seen as a sui generis exercise or are viewed within a longer term per

ON a first reading, it may appear that the Union government's Budget for 2008-09 is very different from the neoliberal Budgets of the last decade and a half or more.

It is clear from Budget 2008 that the UPA, instead of abandoning its neoliberal agenda in an election year, has decided to stick to it resolutely. R.V. MOORTHY

The Forest Department will not carry out the culling of monkeys at its own level in view of the religious sentiments of the people but grant permission to kill them to farmers whose crops are being da

The Kerala government will depute a high-level task force with Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu P.

Temjen Kaba, president Ao Senden on March 26 urged all local bodies of Mokokchung district to improve proper coordination with the implementing agencies of different flagship schemes on Bharat Nirman

TO BE sure, there are a number of problems with the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) that provides a universal, selftargeting guarantee of 100 days of employmen

Community Score Card (CSC), a new technique among the available social accountability tools, was used in Rajasthan recently to assess the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Sche