nrega scam

As many as 48 people including government officials were booked in a scam of `4.18 crore in National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) in Dahod district. Those booked are sarpanches of 20 villages including 11 women sarpanches.

The BJP fine tuned its election strategy for the ensuing panchayat elections in Orissa at its state executive meeting that kicked off here on Wednesday.

Even dead people get paid for their work in Haryana. CAG auditors have found that under the Centre's employment guarantee scheme NREGA, the Haryana government has paid wages to even dead persons.

The encouraging words came while IAC volunteers doubted if Parliament would pass the bill this time.

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.

LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan here on Tuesday demanded a CBI probe into the alleged Rs 500 crore excise scam.

According to the rural development ministry's NREGA asset register, though, another brick road was built in Kahua in 2012, at an estimated cost of Rs 1.5 lakh.

The motley crew assembled at a roadside tea stall in the blazing heat in Kondama Naiyuni Palayam village in Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, says the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has let them down.

It's that time of the year when Jharkhand celebrates the Sarhul festival. As saal trees sprout new leaves and blossom in leafless forests, tribals troop to the village saran sthal (place to pray)' to worship nature. White and red-striped flags flutter along a cratered road snaking through Latehar's hilly terrain, from Rajdanda to Barahi.

It’s that time of the year when Jharkhand celebrates the Sarhul festival. As saal trees sprout new leaves and blossom in leafless forests, tribals troop to the village ‘saran sthal’ (place to pray) to worship nature.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) questioned principal secretary Rajiv Arun Ekka for the second consecutive day on Tuesday on the basis of evidence found by the central agency during its raid conducted in connection with Mnrega scam and money laundering at different places since the past several months.

The Gujarat high court on Tuesday issued notice to the state government and the officers concerned from Amreli district, over a PIL seeking action in an alleged Rs 4 crore scam in the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) in Jafrabad