Instead of ensuring effective implementation of MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) schemes in Uttar Pradesh, both BSP and Congress are engaged in a battle of one-upmanship on it. It appears that both Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and the UP Government headed by Mayawati are busy in playing the blame game.

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has written a fresh letter to UP Chief Minister Mayawati over alleged irregularities in implementation of MNREGA in seven districts and demanded a CBI probe into it.

In a 14-page letter to Mayawati, Ramesh cited the instances of alleged irregularities and corruption in implementation of the scheme in Balrampur, Gonda, Mahoba, Sonbhadra, Kushinagar, Mirzapur and Sant Kabir Nagar.

Sonbhadra, a Naxal-hit district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, has emerged as the top performer in initiating development projects under the Centre

Accepting the logics and rational of the state the Central Planning Commission has approved the annual plan of Rs 47000 crore for the 2011-12 on Monday in Delhi.

Ranchi, May 6: Jharkhand High Court today directed the water resource department secretaries of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand to hold a meeting on Kanhar dam project in Garhwa, a project that has been hanging in balance since almost 40 years.

The division bench of Justices Prakash Tatia and Ramesh Kumar Merathia was hearing a PIL filed by former minister Hemendra Pratap Dehati who said that constr

A Central team which found glaring examples of MGNREGA violations in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, has asked the state administration to conduct a detailed probe in all the worksites in the district.

The financial misappropriation in this case could be to the tune of several hundred crores of rupees, according to sources who
said successful implementation of the MGNREGA is important to push develo

LUCKNOW: The state government's move to provide relief to the tribals and forest dwellers by withdrawing cases lodged against them by the police and forest department for petty offences has been caught in a `legal tangle'.

While cases filed under forest laws are being summarily disposed of by the forest department by asking the tribals and dwellers to accept the charges, even if they have not c

LUCKNOW: In a bid to promote bamboo cultivation and its usage, the state forest department along with the national bamboo mission would hold a workshop here on January 10. Currently, in India, there are 1,275 varieties of bamboo.

The national bamboo mission is to be implemented in 20 districts of the state. UP had sanctioned Rs 4.10 crore under the mission in 2008.

LUCKNOW: Caste war in UP seems to be assuming different dimensions, proves recent spate of mid-day meal boycott in UP government schools.

Lucknow: The forest department has come up with plantation targets for the year 2010-11. The department will plant saplings covering over an area of 55,000 hectares in the coming year. The plantation exercise will begin this month with the advent of monsoon.