MGNREGA: Budget 2021 should maintain the pace
January 31, 2021
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The scheme provided momentum to the economy during Covid-19 and experts think the Budget allocation to the scheme can be increased in FY22
For the past three years, many adivasis from remote Peth taluka of Nashik district in Maharashtra have not migrated to cities in search of work and livelihood. They grow rice enough to sell at the local market, thanks to the construction of farm ponds, stone and mud bunds and other agriculture-related works carried out under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
Besides addressing the problem of migration from villages, the scheme has helped provide employment to migrant labourers dislocated this fiscal year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As compared to the last financial year, the Centre has increased funding under MGNREGA scheme by ₹19,091 crore due to Covid-19 outbreak. Experts think that the Budget allocation to the scheme should be increased to
In a series leading up to the budget, we explain how critical sectors and important schemes are being funded by the government. In this fourth part of the series, we explain how funds have been allocated to drinking water and surface water schemes such as river cleaning, conservation and irrigation over the last five years, and what more needs to be done.
Water is crucial for agriculture, industry and homes, but in this explainer, we focus mostly on drinking water and sanitation, which gets the bulk of the allocation. The government is running a
mission-mode project to ensure that piped water reaches all villages in India by 2024.
City council to give devices to Port of Spain students
Thursday 28 January 2021
Alderman Wendell Stephen at the statutory meeting of the Port of Spain Corporation on Wednesday. The city council announced it would donate $150,000 in devices to Port of Spain students. PHOTO BY SUREASH CHOLAI -
Students in Port of Spain and environs will soon receive $149,800 worth of tables and laptops from the city council.
Alderman Wendell Stephen, during the first statutory meeting of the council on Wednesday, said the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Rural Development had approved the funds.
In October, last year, Stephens lambasted the council for not keeping its promise to deliver 314 devices to students in the area.
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Hundreds of thousands of Mauritanians are struggling to feed themselves as they fall victim to the effects of climate change.
A chronically hungry country, Mauritania could see the availability of food drop to its lowest level in years if drought continues to ravage crops, livestock and livelihoods.
An estimated 1.3 million people will face food insecurity this year, according to the latest assessment by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). Among them, nearly half a million people are expected to fall into severe food insecurity by June and be “unable to meet their food needs without external assistance. Around 21,000 will suffer extreme food insecurity, or a near complete depletion of their livelihoods.