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nrega commissioner Ajay kumar Singh on Wednesday said Ramgarh district was at the bottom among 24 districts of the state in terms of implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega). He was talking to newsmen after holding a review meeting of nrega with the district administration. "I came here to find the reason why nrega is a flop show in Ramgarh district," Singh added.

nrega commissioner Ajay kumar Singh on Wednesday said Ramgarh district was at the bottom among 24 districts of the state in terms of implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega).

To bring transparency in the utilisation of nrega grants, the Punjab chief minister has appointed his principal secretary for inspection of works which are being executed with nrega grant.

Kerala has the most number of female national rural employment guarantee act (nrega) workers in the country, according to the rural development ministry’s 2008 assessment. And the projection for the year 2010 showed 95% of nrega workers in the state would be women.

Frustrated at constant non-adherence to departmental orders by officials, Bharat Singh, rural development and panchayati raj minister, has decided to personally visit all nrega sites close to the capital regularly.

Even as the Centre had announced a 6% hike over the existing 107% dearness allowance rate in the basic salaries of central government employees in January, nrega labourers in Jharkhand had to only settle for a 2.5% hike in wages.

Rajindra said he worked on excavations for building houses for six months under nrega in Chhattisgarh but hasn’t received any payment yet. Babli, a mother of two in a village in Karnal in Haryana, too toiled for months but was given just half her wages, that too after a lengthy wait.

The Reis Magos panchayat has come under a cloud for alleged misuse of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) funds where job cards were allegedly prepared in the names of people who never executed the works and monies were sought to be siphoned off in their names.

Bihar is set to become probably the first state in India to have a call centre for entertaining queries regarding National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) schemes and complaints regarding denial of benefits under the Act.

Federation of Indian Art Silk Weaving Industry has decided to approach the ministry concerned in the Central government with a proposal to affiliate nrega scheme with the industry in order to ensure free flow of migrant workers.

Everyone agrees that the nrega is causing a shortage of agricultural labour. Everyone, that is, except the workers themselves.

Seventy-year-old Dau Singh is dancing to the tune of a parody music being belted out in the background by a group of people sitting on the pavement.

Gandhi's reaction came after the rural development ministry informed him that nrega was doing fairly well in Naxal-affected districts as compared to rest of the areas of a particular state.

The Supreme Court on Thursday has asked for a thorough investigation into utilization of nrega funds by the Orissa government and asked why the probe into it be not entrusted to the CBI.

A three-member committee, formed by rural development ministry to probe allegations that Gujarat government was diverting nrega funds for other projects, will visit the state next week for the inquiry.

Taking cognisance of reports about delay in payment of wages to nrega workers, the Centre has asked states to remove the "bottlenecks" for ensuring timely payment to the beneficiaries.

The Centre is mulling health insurance cover for all nrega workers, a move which may incur a huge recurring expenditure on the UPA but also holds the potential to deepen `aam aadmi' credentials of Congress.

Ranchi: Voices of protest against linking of Aadhaar with provisions of nrega have started surfacing again. Activists believe that at a time when the Aadhaar coverage is still poor and the legal veracity has been challenged in court, any effort to make it mandatory would mean depriving a section of the society of the government’s employment guarantee scheme.

Addressing the gathering, social activist and senior researcher from 'Lib-Tech India,' Budha Chakradhar said that the central government is pressurising the state governments to bring upon the changes in nrega scheme and the both the Telugu states have started implementing the changes since November and December 2021 without a single word of protest.

If figures of a survey conducted by the Jharkhand nrega watch are to be believed, more than 25% dobhas in the test check districts were either not constructed or were dug using machines.

The Unique Identity Number may prove a potent instrument of gender and labour empowerment, with nrega proving the first stop.

Rural development ministry is considering a `banking correspondent' model for nrega, by which banks will deliver wages at worksites to check complaints of delayed payments.

The Centre is mulling health insurance cover for all nrega workers, a move which may incur a huge recurring expenditure on UPA.

Livid at the allegation of diversion of funds sent by the Centre to states for nrega-mandated schemes, the SC on Monday warned to make an example out of Orissa to force other defaulting states to fall in line.