Senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta has closely followed the issues around coal mining in the past, along with various aspects of the Indian political economy.

The Comptroller and Auditor-General has found serious lapses in implementation of the UPA’s flagship programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has found a number of flaws in implementation of the government’s flagship programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Schem

The performance audit report of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has shown significant decline in per rural household employment generation in the last two years

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik would unveil the Odisha Agriculture Policy-2013 on Akshay Tritiya on May 13, said agriculture minister Debi Prasad Mishra on Monday.

After the job guarantee scheme played a crucial role in UPA’s reelection the government is working on a plan to reach out to 100 mil lion tribals to ensure remun eration for minor forest pro duce.

GUWAHATI, April 11: The main objectives of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) are rural development and employment.

Centre, state govt bear fiscal burden of `8,340 cr

Although the industrial promotion policies have put a whopping fiscal burden of Rs 8,340 crore on the state and Central governments from 2007 to 2012, the policies have failed to achieve the desired results and the main objectives of such incentives have been defeated. The industrial packages were announced in the state to generate employment but their results are discouraging.

PANJIM: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has urged the people living in the mining belt to explore alternate sources of income rather than totally depend on mining related activities.

“We have to stop depending on mining fully. Check for alternate source of income like farming and dairy. It is flourishing now,” he said, addressing a large crowd of mining affected people at Secretariat Tuesday morning.