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• Rise in minimum wages among NREGS achievements
• CAG report doubts official NREGS figures
• 'No corruption in Bundelkhand plantation project'
• Right to Education Bill passed
• CAG performance audit on NREGS presented to Parliament
• Rs 10,500 crore more allocated to NREGS
• Ashok Khosla new president of IUCN
• Rural community radio stations to go on air
• NREGS has not stemmed rural migration: study
• Bihar camp conditions poor, says Oxfam
• Three-quarters of disabled population has no certificates
• Legal fraternity should help implement NREGS: PM
• Minister calls on people's reps to strengthen NREGS
• Inquiry into NREGS tree plantation drive
• Rs 2,000 cr package for Marathwada
• South Asia lags behind in MDGs: UN report
• Plantation drive in Bundelkhand fails to meet target
• Awards scheme for CSOs engaged in NREGS work
• Women demand better quality of life for children
• Deadline for phasing out NREGS cash payments
• Met department to be consulted for NREGS works
• Jharkhand complaints discussed at NREGA Central Council meet
• More poor people in the world says new World Bank estimate
• Officials punished for NREGS corruption in MP
• 46 killed, thousands stranded in Bihar floods
• More cases of child malnutrition in MP, Maharashtra
• Toll-free NREGA helpline
• Insurance cover for NREGS workers
• Additional Rs 8,000 crore demand for NREGS
• Vidarbha did not get bulk of loan waiver benefit: report
• India has highest number of under-5 deaths
• Drought-like situation in Maharashtra
• Heavy rains in UP claim lives, destroy crops
• Magsaysay Award for Amtes
• Maharashtra to provide market access to BPL families
• Post offices open 110 lakh NREGS accounts
• NREGS expansion put on hold ?
• Gujarat doubles minimum wage
• NREGS lacks people's participation says survey
• Orissa govt to supply cheap rice to BPL families
• Planning Commission review of NREGS
• NREGS revamp awaits feedback from the field
• 7% of BPL families paid bribes for NREGS: study
• Murder of NREGS activist: cover-up alleged
• Alarming decline in female sex ratio
• Child malnutrition increasing in Maharashtra
• CAG slams Maharashtra’s employment guarantee scheme
• Madhya Pradesh best performer in NREGS implementation
• Over 53% of Indian children get no healthcare
• More than 35% BPL cards are fake: govt
• GM food trials data to be disclosed
• CSOs urge PM to reconsider FCR Bill
• NREGS must focus on creating productive assets: CSE study
• Jharkhand fell short of NREGS target by 77.5% in 2006-07
• Budget 2008-09: A civil society critique
• National Land Reforms Committee begins work
• Loan waiver for Kisan Credit Card holders
• TB control slows down
• More pay, perks proposed for rural doctors
• Farmer suicides continue despite loan waiver
• More investment in women needed to meet MDG targets
• Women’s Tribunal Against Poverty
• Rise in polio cases
• Midday meal scheme extended; SSA focus on improving quality
• New schemes for unorganised sector
• NREGS to cover 596 districts
• Budget provisions for SC/ST, minorities, women
• Agricultural growth rate dips
• Increase of 15% for health in budget
• Loan waiver for marginal farmers
• 728 sq km of forest cover lost: report
• Maharashtra to do away with matching allocation for EGS
• Bundelkhand gets attention in UP budget
• Maharashtra Dy CM assurance on gairan lands
• Report on ICDS indicts contractors
• Govt plans Rs 70,000 crore package for farmers
• UP CM announces relief measures for Bundelkhand
• Pratham education survey shows improved statistics
• India has highest number of neonatal deaths: UNICEF
• Serious fraud in five World Bank health projects
• Panel appointed to review SC/ST Act
• Govt to consider increasing age of child labourers to 18 years
• PM directs states to set up committees to implement Tribal Rights Act
• NGOs to boycott ADB's South Asia Consultation
• Drinking water MDG target met, sanitation lags behind
• Govt notifies Tribal Rights Act
• PIL on poverty-related deaths in Bundelkhand
• Microcredit reaches 133 million worldwide: survey
• Eleventh Five-Year Plan promises more inclusive growth
• PIL on non-formation of district planning committees in UP
• Infant mortality rates in India still too high: UNICEF
• Disabled falling behind despite booming economy: World Bank
• Tribals demand notification of Tribals Rights Act
• Hazare calls on government to decentralise and popularise RTI
• Poor most at risk from climate change: UNDP report
• India to collect and upload data on villages
• New old age pension scheme launched
• Weather-based crop insurance scheme launched
• Gender gap widens in India: WEF report
• Rs 1,863 cr package for Marathwada
• Prenatal son selection to have severe impact: UN body
• Govt. to set up land reform council
• Janadesh reaches Delhi
• Govt launches insurance schemes for the poor
• Janadesh campaigners meet Sonia Gandhi
• 3rd National Family Health Survey shows slow progress
• Cabinet clears R&R policy
• Politicians take note of Janadesh
• 25,000 landless people start march to Delhi
• NREGS extended to cover all districts
• Only 3% of child labour gets schooling: survey
• Janadesh begins march with rally in Gwalior
• PM calls for end to free power, to conserve water
• Maharashtra govt to issue one caste certificate for entire family
• Labour productivity up but deficit in ‘decent work’: ILO report
• NREGS registration goes high-tech in Bihar
• PM demands answers for Maharashtra’s poor agricultural performance
• SEZ-friendly R&R policy
• Janadesh plans long march to Delhi
• Study on impact of animal husbandry in Vidarbha package
• Cheap Bt cotton still some time away
• Steps to make NREGS more effective
• New districts under NREGS
• Gap between SC/ST students and others increasing
• 79% of unorganised workers live on less than Rs 20 a day
• PM’s 17,000 cr rural package ineffective, says expert group
• 32,000 schools in India have no students
• DFID’s new ‘Three Indias’ strategy for poverty reduction
• Chhattisgarh officers in NREGA scam
• Bill on unorganised sector to be revised
• Draft plan to tackle trafficking of women and children
• Floods cause havoc in Bihar, UP
• Magsaysay award for P Sainath
• Maharashtra misspent millions in flood relief: CAG report
• Study critical of NREGA implementation
• Parliament set to pass senior citizens bill
• PM urged to withdraw environment notification
• Bundelkhand’s most dreaded dacoit killed
• PDS leaves out the poor: NSSO survey
• Tribals caught between extremists and security forces: report
• Maharashtra drought forum meets opposition leader