Jharkhand Mnrega

Jharkand Mining Secretary Pooja Singhal has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in an alleged money laundering case that surfaced during the investigation into the misappropriation of MNREGA funds.

Prem Dayamani, a villager living 30 km from Ranchi, had an average income of Rs 27 a day last year. That’s Rs 5 less than the minimum cost of living in rural areas, which, the Planning Commission said in 2014, was Rs 32 a day. Even so, part of the payment was only on paper. Last year, she got nothing. “I got last year’s money this year. Had I...

Over a hundred letters, Rs 5 enclosed in each of them, addressed to the Prime Minister's Office in Delhi. The senders are the villagers in Jharkhand's Latehar, who say they could do without the Rs 5 wage hike under MNREGA.

When Jharkhand declared a drought in December, farmers like 45-year-old Karma Oraon, who lives around 45 km from state capital Ranchi and supports a family of six, hoped the losses from crop failure could be offset. The Centre's rural jobs scheme or MNREGA guarantees 100 days of employment to the rural poor.

There isn't much to do for Pantho Munda, a resident in Angara village of Jharkhand's Ranchi district. He has spent 18 months working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, or MNREGA, building a well in the village. And he is still waiting for part of his payment.

MNREGA workers will now get more money with Centre revising their wages from April 1 under which the maximum daily wage of Rs 214 has been fixed for Haryana while Bihar, Sikkim, Tripura, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh will get the minimum of Rs 135.

Jharkand Mining Secretary Pooja Singhal has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in an alleged money laundering case that surfaced during the investigation into the misappropriation of MNREGA funds.

Prem Dayamani, a villager living 30 km from Ranchi, had an average income of Rs 27 a day last year. That’s Rs 5 less than the minimum cost of living in rural areas, which, the Planning Commission said in 2014, was Rs 32 a day. Even so, part of the payment was only on paper. Last year, she got nothing. “I got last year’s money this year. Had I...

Over a hundred letters, Rs 5 enclosed in each of them, addressed to the Prime Minister's Office in Delhi. The senders are the villagers in Jharkhand's Latehar, who say they could do without the Rs 5 wage hike under MNREGA.

When Jharkhand declared a drought in December, farmers like 45-year-old Karma Oraon, who lives around 45 km from state capital Ranchi and supports a family of six, hoped the losses from crop failure could be offset. The Centre's rural jobs scheme or MNREGA guarantees 100 days of employment to the rural poor.

There isn't much to do for Pantho Munda, a resident in Angara village of Jharkhand's Ranchi district. He has spent 18 months working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, or MNREGA, building a well in the village. And he is still waiting for part of his payment.

MNREGA workers will now get more money with Centre revising their wages from April 1 under which the maximum daily wage of Rs 214 has been fixed for Haryana while Bihar, Sikkim, Tripura, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh will get the minimum of Rs 135.