The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday sought report from the Central government over the non-release of funds allotted to the West Bengal government under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin is working in full swing towards fulfilling the long-awaited dreams of several poor and vulnerable families having their own pucca house.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who on Wednesday sat on a dharna here against the central government over alleged blocking of state money, said she would sit on a dharna near the Prime Minister's residence in Delhi if necessary.
She alleged that the Centre was discriminating against West Bengal in allocating funds for various social welfare schemes including the MGNREGA and the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.
The Union Budget allocated Rs 60,000 crore for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme for 2023-24, 18 per cent lower than the Rs 73,000 crore budget estimates for the current year 2022-23, and about 33 per cent lower than the Rs 89,000 crore revised es
The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail for two months to the former Jharkhand mining secretary Pooja Singhal in connection with a money-laundering probe linked to the alleged embezzlement of MGNREGA funds, for the purposes of attending to her daughter.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail for one month to the former Jharkhand mining secretary Pooja Singhal in connection with a money-laundering probe linked to the alleged embezzlement of MGNREGA funds.
Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday alleged that the BJP-led central government was reducing its expenses under the MGNREGA scheme.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S Oka granted interim bail to former Jharkhand mining secretary Pooja Singhal and imposed some conditions on her, including that she will not visit Ranchi unless a court case is listed for hearing in the city.