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MNREGA payments went to Bangladeshis; Bengal TMC panchayat leader under scanner
By Sreyasi Pal | Hindustan Times, Berhampore
UPDATED ON JAN 04, 2021 01:59 AM IST
Officials said that the former community block development officer (BDO) of Nabagram completed an internal probe on the basis of a written complaint. The internal probe concluded that Arfin and some staff members of the gram panchayat were involved in the alleged fraud.
‘Not getting GST dues, even BJP-ruled states unhappy’: Hemant Soren
By Vishal Kant | Hindustan Times, Ranchi
UPDATED ON DEC 28, 2020 04:40 PM IST
Despite the talk about cooperative federalism, Soren, citing his experience as CM over the past year, said that the relationship between the Centre and the state is not healthy
‘No option left’: Labourers from Bundelkhand on the move again for jobs
By Anupam Pateriya | Hindustan Times, Sagar
UPDATED ON DEC 02, 2020 01:56 PM IST
The migration is reported to have increased post-Diwali.
Tughlaqi lockdown, lip service: Rahul Gandhi’s jibe at Centre on workers’ plight
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Meenakshi Ray | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 20, 2020 11:32 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi had before this criticised the central government over inflation and unemployment and also said that people’s morale is crumbling and social justice is being crushed daily.
Over 80% migrants who returned to Uttarakhand provided MNREGA jobs
By Suparna Roy | Hindustan Times, Dehradun
PUBLISHED ON SEP 05, 2020 04:21 PM IST
Of the 103,000 people who have been provided new job cards under the scheme, over 80,000 have been offered employment
Chhattisgarh gets additional 1.50 crore man-days under MNREGA
By Ritesh Mishra | Hindustan Times, Raipur
UPDATED ON AUG 28, 2020 11:47 PM IST
Chhattisgarh Panchayat minister TS Singh Deo had written a letter to the Central government for the increase in man-days in May.
In plan to step up Jal Jeevan Mission in Covid times, Centre has 2 clear objectives
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUN 14, 2020 03:12 PM IST
The Jal Jeevan Mission targets supply potable drinking water through piped connections to 15 crore rural households by 2024.
On NREGA outlay, Rahul Gandhi tweets thank you to PM Modi. Then takes a dig
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Ashutosh Tripathi | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 18, 2020 04:05 PM IST
On Sunday, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while laying out the final tranche of the Rs 20 lakh crore economic package, said the government will now allocate an additional Rs 40,000 crore to MGNREGA to provide employment boost.
₹745 cr released for GPF, centrally sponsored schemes
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh, Chandigarh
PUBLISHED ON MAR 09, 2020 09:46 PM IST
Disclosing this here on Monday, an official spokesperson said that funds to the tune of ₹311 crore have been released for making payment of retiral benefits, including final GPF and leave encashment, besides ₹95 crore on account of clearing advances of GPF to the employees till March 6.
‘Working for poverty-free India,’ says union minister Narendra Singh Tomar
By Sunetra Choudhury and Zia Haq | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUL 27, 2019 12:27 AM IST
Modi government is working to eliminate extreme poverty so that there is no need for a state-backed job guarantee scheme, says union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar in an interview with Hindustan Times.
10 workers buried alive as earth mound collapses in Telangana’s Narayanpet
By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu | Hindustan Times, Hyderabad
UPDATED ON APR 10, 2019 03:51 PM IST
The local authorities rushed to the site and extricated 10 bodies with the help of villagers. Five other workers managed to escape. Some of them received severe injuries and are being treated at a local hospital.
MNREGA okay, but where is work, ask villagers in Unnao
By Saurabh Chauhan | Hindustan Times, Unnao, Mirjapur Sumhari (unnao)
PUBLISHED ON APR 02, 2019 08:54 AM IST
“Earlier, we used to get enough work under MNREGA without long gaps. But there are weeks when we have no work to do,” says Manju of the village.
Lok Sabha elections 2019| ‘This is not a jumla’: Priyanka Gandhi jabs BJP on income scheme for poor
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAR 29, 2019 04:39 PM IST
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that the Congress’s idea behind MNREGA was that “every family would get at least 100 days of employment.” This government wants to take away that opportunity of employment from the people, the Congress general secretary said.
Consulted Raghuram Rajan, top economists for income scheme: Rahul Gandhi
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAR 26, 2019 09:15 PM IST
Addressing a booth workers meeting in Jaipur on Tuesday, the Congress president said that before proposing the minimum income scheme, the party had consulted leading economists including Raghuram Rajan.
Govt seeks EC approval to revise wage rates paid under MNREGA
By Press Trust of India | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAR 26, 2019 05:37 PM IST
MGNREGA, a rural job guarantee scheme introduced in 2005, now covers all the rural districts of the country. The main objective of the scheme involves providing up to 100 days of unskilled manual work in a financial year to every household in rural areas.
Rajasthan CM Gehlot seeks Rs 1,000 from Centre for rural job scheme MNREGA
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Jaipur, Jaipur
PUBLISHED ON FEB 20, 2019 03:17 PM IST
Rajasthan CM said that in the current financial year, 42.33 lakh rural families have been given work and 1972.23 lakh man days have been created in the state.
UP: Green movement grapples with question of sapling survival
By Umesh Raghuvanshi | Hindustan Times, Lucknow, Lucknow
UPDATED ON AUG 20, 2018 01:23 PM IST
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh faces the challenge of protecting over nine crore saplings planted on August 15 even as questions remain about the ‘record plantation drives’ carried out in the past.