| Rural Rahul | 22-OCT-09 |
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| Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s shadow over the government’s social sector programmes just got longer. After being a part of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development, Gandhi has now been inducted to Parliament’s Consultative Committee on Rural Development — he is one of the 30 members of the committee which was constituted last month and which is headed by Rural Development Minister C P Joshi. |
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| Surprise boost for right to know from Rajasthan politicians | 14-OCT-09 |
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| Transparency is the newest item on the agenda of many Rajasthan ministers and MPs. C P Joshi, the man who lost the Rajasthan Assembly elections last year by just one vote, to later become the Union minister for rural development, started the trend. |
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| Dreze, Aruna Roy against NGOs for NREGP, want Rajiv Kendras out | 13-OCT-09 |
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| The first meeting of the newly-reconstituted Central Employment Guarantee Council last week, meant to oversee the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme, saw two prominent members, Jean Drèze and Aruna Roy, object to various new ideas of the government, beginning with the one of using it to build Bharat Nirman Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendras, meant to serve as offices for panchayats. |
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| 'We will soon sort out all differences on NREGS' | 03-SEP-09 |
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| Union rural development minister C P JOSHI tells Sreelatha Menon he has been following a progressive agenda on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme and won’t be deterred by critics. |
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| Govt to address late payment issue in NREGS | 27-AUG-09 |
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| The government is mulling some proposals like spot payment by banks at the work-site, and deploying paid gram panchayat representatives in the banks to process the dues to address the worrying issue of late payments in its flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, or NREGS. |
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| In a huff | 20-AUG-09 |
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| It may be a coincidence, but Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee hasn’t attended any cabinet meeting after she almost threatened to walk out of a cabinet meeting in the third week of July over the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill. On that occasion, Banerjee had to argue with not only Rural Development Minister C P Joshi but also other Congress ministers like Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal who wanted to pass the bill immediately. While she has been in West Bengal for her political programmes, she was in Delhi in the first week of August when a Cabinet meeting took place. On that occasion, she chose to attend a private party of a party colleague instead. |
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| MPs to head panels to monitor rural projects | 07-AUG-09 |
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| Parliamentarians will soon head monitoring committees to check progress of various rural development works in their constituencies, the government told the Lok Sabha today. |
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| Govt to modify NREGA to plug loopholes | 01-JUL-09 |
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| The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which is believed to have earned political benefits for the Congress in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, will be modified to plug the loopholes and make the officials more accountable. |
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