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1 month ago

Spike in NREGS payment delays, technical glitches, say workers

NEW DELHI: Delayed payments, largescale deletion of names of workers and frequent technical glitches in several states continue to hobble the country’s flagship rural job guarantee programme, the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, a coalition of several grassroots organisations, alleged on Thursday. The coalition, which works with workers’ unions, also said wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Job Guarantee Scheme have …

Workers Payment Chouhan Nrega Technical Glitches

2 months ago

Transgenders welcome Telangana govt's job cards plan

Deccan Chronicle

Warangal: The Centre has instructed the rural development and panchayat raj departments to include transgenders under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme and to issue them job cards, enabling them to lead a respectable life in society. Unable to secure employment in their places of residence, many transgenders migrate to other areas, leaving their parents in villages …

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4 months ago

Proposal to merge 64 gram panchayats with GVMC sparks debate among villagers

The Hindu

The latest proposal to merge all 64 gram panchayats of Bhimili, Anandapuram and Padmanabham mandals of Visakhapatnam district with the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation has sparked a debate among the people of those mandals, which are located on either side of National Highway-16, and are less than 25 km away from the under-construction Bhogapuram International Airport. Padmanabham MPP Kantubothu Rambabu …

Proposal State Visakhapatnam Merge Gvmc Nrega Padmanabham

7 months, 3 weeks ago

NREGA fraud: Rs 29 lakh spent for road, yet patients taken to hospitals in doli

Deccan Chronicle

Visakhapatnam: The hilltop villages continue to face hardships despite huge spend of money for roads and other civic facilities under the MGNREGA schemes. Marri Kavya of Jajulu Bandha, a hilltop village in Moolpet Panchayat, Koyyur mandal, Alluri Sitaramaraju district, has been ill for the past week. Kavya on the Doli reached Arla village in Rolugunta mandal of Anakapalli district and …

Road Village Mgnrega Kavya Jajula Bandha 29 Lakh Bandha

8 months ago

Elect Chamala with greater margin than me, Nakrekal MLA tells people

Deccan Chronicle

Nalgonda: Congress MLA Vemula Veeresham on Tuesday asked the people of his constituency to give a bigger margin of victory — about 56,00 votes — that he got in his Nakrekal segment to the party’s Bhongir candidate Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy. The Congress state government has implemented five poll promises within 100 days and the remaining one would be fulfilled …

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10 months ago

Guarantee procurement, not just minimum prices

Hindustan Times

In November 2022, a year-long farmer protest movement forced the Union government to repeal the 2021 farm laws which de-regulated agricultural markets in India. On the other hand, farmers insist that the MSP, when coupled with actual procurement, provides them with a price floor that enables them to negotiate better prices with private traders and large corporations and thereby earn …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Interim Budget 2024 — in campaign mode

The Hindu

Well before Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman rose to present the Interim Budget for 2024-25, there were indications as to what its focus would be. That has been true of this year’s Interim Budget as well, which focused on all the “welfare” schemes, in areas varying from housing to food, which have been largely attributed to the Prime Minister. For example, …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

'Khela Hobe' or not? Why Mamata's NREGA-like job scheme hasn't taken off

India Today

A West Bengal government scheme to provide 100 days of guaranteed employment, announced by chief minister Mamata Banerjee on July 21 last year, may not see the light of the day. The scheme, which was prompted by the Union government stalling funds to the state under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, was financially ‘unfeasible’, said sources in the know. …

Mamata Trinamool State Bjp Bengal Scheme Khela Hobe

1 year, 3 months ago

BJP demands CBI probe on Bengal's use of NREGA funds amid Trinamool's protest

India Today

The leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal on Monday demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the state government's spending of the MGNREGA funds allotted by the central government. Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in West Bengal, alleged that "huge scams" have been uncovered in the state government's spending of the Centre's NREGA …

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1 year, 4 months ago

India’s crèche scheme and the laws that govern childcare facilities | Explained

The Hindu

In 2008, a survey of women working in Tamil Nadu’s Viluppuram district raised a question— can quality childcare facilities increase and sustain women’s participation in the Indian economy? A 2018 study surveying creche facilities at NREGA work sites concurred that work opportunities provided under the NREGA were “made less attractive because of the absence/insufficiencies of childcare at worksites.” Conversely, if …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Independence Day celebrations: Cross-section of India at Red Fort ramparts

Hindustan Times

Chandrashobha Kumari and her family woke up at 3am on Tuesday, well before they usually do. At 5am, they left their home in RK Puram in south Delhi and less than an hour later, they blended into the 1,800-odd people who swarmed the historic monument in Old Delhi to watch Prime Minister Narendra Modi address the nation on Independence Day. …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Jantar Mantar Protest Site: A Daily Reminder of Shrinking Democracy

The Quint

Since 23 April, several Indian wrestlers -- many of them Olympians -- have been protesting at Delhi's iconic Jantar Mantar against the Wrestling Federation of India president and a BJP Member of Parliament, Brijbhushan Sharan Singh. Just before the wrestlers made it to Jantar Mantar, I had coordinated a 60-day peaceful protest by National Rural Employment Guarantee Act workers at …

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1 year, 9 months ago

SPOTLIGHT | MGNREGA under attack from the Narendra Modi government

The Hindu

Published : Apr 06, 2023 11:00 IST - 10 MINS READ In 2015, one year after he assumed office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mocked the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government, calling the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act a “living memorial” to the Congress’ failures. My political instinct tells me that MGNREGA should not be discontinued….” But those working …

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1 year, 9 months ago

MGNREGA protest against new app-based attendance enters day 40, Oppn MPs extend support

India TV News

MGNREGA workers' protest against the new app-based attendance mechanism entered day 40 at the Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Monday. The MPs had joined groups that are holding a 100-day protest against the new mobile application based attendance system, led by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha. The NREGA Sangharsh Morcha said the Ministry of Rural Development has agreed to take remedial action …

Rural Rural Development Workers Pti Parliament System Attendance

1 year, 11 months ago

Math Of Budget 2023: Increase In Taxes To Fund Higher Capex And IT Breaks For Middle Class

ABP News

Finance Minister Nirmala Seetharaman on Wednesday presented Modi government’s 9th full Budget and last before the general elections next year. In a longer-than-usual Budget speech, the minister focussed on higher capital outlay as a means to foster growth amidst global headwinds, while at the same time providing tax relief to lower middle class. Source: Budget Document The tax revenues are …

Tax Budget Revenue Crore Lakh Higher Increase

1 year, 11 months ago

In NREGA reforms, prioritise the worker and her dues

The Hindu

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is no stranger to reform. The most recent concern of the central government is over the programme’s “regressive” spending pattern, where poorer States spend less NREGA funds than better-off ones. The Kaam Mango Abhiyan was launched by the Ministry of Rural Development in 2013 — due to declining demand of work under …

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2 years ago

A year of MGNREGA imbroglio in Bengal, rights group call it violation of worker’s rights

The Hindu

Highlighting that it has been a year since MGNREGS workers in West Bengal have not been paid wages, NREGA Sangarsh Morcha on Monday issued a press statement accusing the Centre of “assault on the NREGA”, which is a 100-day employment scheme for the rural families, and it also exposed the government’s lack of commitment for the workers’ rights. The last …

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2 years, 4 months ago

‘Want MNREGA Funds? Show You Acted on 5 Indicators’: Rural Devpt Ministry Reminds States

News 18

The Ministry of Rural Development has written to all states reminding them that they need to furnish action taken reports showing compliance to the indicators set by the ministry to avail funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005. “The assessment of the compliance with the indicators brought in to ensure transparency and accountability in the use …

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2 years, 5 months ago

KCR, MPs meet today

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: TRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao will hold a meeting with his party MPs in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on Saturday to discuss the party’s strategy for the ensuing Parliament session, which is set to begin on July 18. Party sources said the Chief Minister will direct his MPs to raise several key issues …

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2 years, 6 months ago

The advent of ‘app-solute’ chaos in NREGA

The Hindu

In May 2021, the Ministry of Rural Development launched the National Mobile Monitoring Software app, a new application meant for “improving citizen oversight and increasing transparency” in National Rural Employment Guarantee Act works. Conditions affecting workers While such an app may be useful in monitoring the attendance of workers who have fixed work timings, in most States, NREGA wages are …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Group wants new order on MGNREGA workers revoked

The Hindu

The Union Rural Development Ministry must withdraw its order to discontinue manual attendance for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme work sites with more than 20 workers to replace it using a mobile phone-based application — National Mobile Monitoring Software for recording attendance, the Peoples Action For Employment Guarantee, a group of academicians and activists working in the field, …

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3 years, 4 months ago

‘Delay in wage payment by Centre adding to NREGA workers’ woes’

The Hindu

Delay on the part of the Union Government in transfer of wages to workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, has further compounded the woes of thousands of workers during these difficult pandemic times. The Centre is taking 26 days on an average to complete the wage transfer to the NREGA workers in Andhra Pradesh, thrice …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Breaking: Denying Livelihood To People By Linking Their Employment To Their Getting Vaccinated Is Illegal: Manipur High Court

Live Law

The Manipur High Court has ruled that denying livelihood by linking employment of people to their getting vaccinated is an illegal act of the State and that such a measure would trample upon the freedom of the individual to get vaccinated or choose not to do so.The Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice Kh. The Manipur High Court …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Plantations to come up across 26,000 km stretch in AP

Deccan Chronicle

NELLORE: A mega exercise to raise trees along the 26,000 kilometres long national, state and panchayat raj roads and railway tracks, with a six feet gap between each plant, is in the offing under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Andhra Pradesh. Panchayat Raj minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy disclosed this during a review on implementation of Jagananna Pacha Thoranam scheme …

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Spike in NREGS payment delays, technical glitches, say workers

Transgenders welcome Telangana govt's job cards plan

Proposal to merge 64 gram panchayats with GVMC sparks debate among villagers

NREGA fraud: Rs 29 lakh spent for road, yet patients taken to hospitals in doli

Elect Chamala with greater margin than me, Nakrekal MLA tells people

Guarantee procurement, not just minimum prices

Interim Budget 2024 — in campaign mode

'Khela Hobe' or not? Why Mamata's NREGA-like job scheme hasn't taken off

BJP demands CBI probe on Bengal's use of NREGA funds amid Trinamool's protest

India’s crèche scheme and the laws that govern childcare facilities | Explained

Independence Day celebrations: Cross-section of India at Red Fort ramparts

Jantar Mantar Protest Site: A Daily Reminder of Shrinking Democracy

SPOTLIGHT | MGNREGA under attack from the Narendra Modi government

MGNREGA protest against new app-based attendance enters day 40, Oppn MPs extend support

Math Of Budget 2023: Increase In Taxes To Fund Higher Capex And IT Breaks For Middle Class

In NREGA reforms, prioritise the worker and her dues

A year of MGNREGA imbroglio in Bengal, rights group call it violation of worker’s rights

‘Want MNREGA Funds? Show You Acted on 5 Indicators’: Rural Devpt Ministry Reminds States

KCR, MPs meet today

The advent of ‘app-solute’ chaos in NREGA

Group wants new order on MGNREGA workers revoked

‘Delay in wage payment by Centre adding to NREGA workers’ woes’

Breaking: Denying Livelihood To People By Linking Their Employment To Their Getting Vaccinated Is Illegal: Manipur High Court

Plantations to come up across 26,000 km stretch in AP