NREGS

AcronymDefinition
NREGS➣National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (India)
References in periodicals archiveTMC leaders were also accused of threatening and taking money which arrived in villagers' accounts for their work under NREGS as 'cut money'.BJP asks TMC leaders to return "cut" money in meeting in WB's DharmapurThe NREGS and PMPR programmes were also effective in reducing insurgent and security force casualties.Development programmes, security, and violence reduction: Evidence from an insurgency in IndiaThey find that while NREGS may transfer resources to the poor, it also reduces educational attainment among adolescents.Workfare and human capital investment: evidence from IndiaNow many of them find working under NREGS more rewarding than their
traditional occupation.Job guarantee scheme distort rural economyIn fact, the irony is that the NREGS itself may be contributing more than somewhat to price rise in rural areas.Safety nets cannot be engines of growthAction will also be taken against the impersonators after an inquiry," district NREGS project director G.AP officer in soup over job card for NREGSPrasad admitted that middlemen had also hijacked the centrally sponsored NREGS. The state's focus, however, is to save the KUPHS -- UP's answer to the Centre's Indira Awas Yojana ( IAY).Maya to weed out crooks from UP housing schemeUPA- I's deserves praise for its achievements-- the Right to Information Act, the NREGS and the Indo- US nuclear deal, and, above all, its handling of the global financial meltdown.UPA- II's ailment is poor leadershipFunds pouring in the Panchayat through NREGS are main attraction for this change.Women participation in democracy, the least understood promise in RajasthanTHE Mayawati government has taken action against those involved in irregularities in the implementation of the NREGS in Uttar Pradesh.' NGO siphoned off Rs 55 lakh NREGS money in Mathura'Guwahati, March 3 (ANI): The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has played an important role in bringing smiles on thousands of faces.Central rural development schemes realizing Mahatma Gandhi's dream in Assam