Few readers will remember the socialist utopia of Indira Gandhi when food queues were the norm even for the middle class and tankers supplied water at odd hours of the night twice a week. Is that......
Fewer people participated in MGNREGA during the first six months of this financial year (April-September) compared to the same period last year, a recent analysis of the scheme’s performance......
'...Market-linked debentures, high-value insurance, exemptions from capital gains by investment in real estate, etc.''So, there are a number of measures directed at collecting a fair share from......
The negative balance is largely on account of pending material cost for the work done under the programme during the year and even earlier. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Despite the......
MGNREGA scheme: A significant Rs 17,370.58 crore has been carried forward over to the next financial year as unpaid dues as demand for work continued unabated for the scheme in rural areas.......
The beneficiaries of the second set of announcements are expected to be micro, small, and medium enterprises, farmers, women, poor, migrant workers, and other marginalised sections of the society,......