New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) The fund sharing between the Centre and states under the new VB-G RAM G will be based on normative assessment, and states stand to gain around Rs 17,000 crore when compared to average allocation of last seven years, an SBI Research report showed on Monday.Using a simulated scenario of normative assessment of (only Centre’s share), with seven attributes/parameters spread across twin fulcrum of equity and efficiency, “we estimate the states gain around Rs 17,000 crore …
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Bengaluru, Dec 22 (IANS) AICC General Secretary Sachin Pilot on Monday said the Union government was “destroying” the economic security of rural India by changing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).Addressing a press conference at the Congress office in Bengaluru, Pilot said the Union government has committed a “historic blunder”.”For the first time in the country’s history, the name of a scheme that carried the name of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandh…
Kolkata, Dec 20 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress, on Saturday, issued a notification renaming the West Bengal government’s own job guarantee programme after Mahatma Gandhi as a mark of protest against the Union government’s recent decision to replace the 20-year-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) scheme with the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) or VB-G RAM G scheme. As per the notification issued by the State Secretariat, Naban…