NREGA news updates collated by the Foundation for Ecological Security (16-31 Oct 2010)

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Foundation for Ecological Security

The Foundation for Ecological Security, a member of the NREGA Consortium (a loose network of Civil Society Organisations working on NREGA) brings out regular NREGA newsletter updates.

The main news stories in this update are:

  • Youth Cong protests over ''poor'' implementation of NREGA in J-K
  • State govts write to Centre for enhancing NREGS wages
  • Govt keen to rope in IIM, IIT pupils for rural dev programmes
  • Dr. C.P. Joshi Inaugurates Bharat Nirman Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra at Rajasamand in Rajasthan
  • Nomadic tribes extend support to NREGS workers
  • Mahatma Gandhi NREGA beneficiaries completing 100 days of work in Bhilwara felicitated
  • Minimum Wages Act for NGNREGA too: NAC
  • Centre and states labour over NREGA wage fineprint

Some past issues can be accessed on the news section of the NREGA Consortium website.

For additional information on NREGA (now MGREGA), please also see the Right to Food Campaign website.

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