Saeed Khan | TNN Ahmedabad: Gujarat government might have got a reprimand from Centre for not implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in a proper manner, but residents in a distant Naroda village of the Panchamahals district found a new pressure tactic to get the scheme implemented systematically.

Intellectuals write to Manmohan, seeking his intervention Job card should specify payments made and rights of labourers Keep muster roll at workplace Intellectuals and social activists have sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention in implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme and to ensure the safety of activists associated with it in Jharkhand. In a letter, they have brought to his notice the serious problems in the functioning of NREGP in the State and the climate of terror faced by those who expose corruption.

RS 2 lakh could have solved many of the problems this unemployed graduate was facing. But Samsher could not have lived with the guilt if had used the money. The Ambala resident had picked up a bag containing the cash by mistake. As soon as he realised that, Samsher handed it over to the police. His honesty paid off. Director Public Instruction (Schools) S K Setia promised Samsher a supervisor's job under Mid Day Meal scheme on a salary of Rs 6,000 on Thursday.

The rate of unemployment has decreased by six per cent last year in comparison to that of previous year. The constant development recorded in the agriculture, Industrial and Service sectors had been a major contributory factor for this downturn the Government Information Department said in a release citing the Budget situation report released by the Finance Ministry in terms of the Financial Management (Responsibilities) Act No. 3 of 2003.

"There is widespread sense of outrage amongst the country's coastal communities,' says Harekrishna Debnath, chairperson of the National Fishworkers' Forum. The indignation stems from the loss of