How MGNREGA blew Rs 10,853 crore

The “little known” success story of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has unfolded as a disaster. …

Merely increasing PMFBY budget allocation might not help

To make this scheme really attractive for farmers, various serious measures need to be taken

No price panel meetings in 10 Assam tea-growing districts in 5 years, finds CAG

Less than 4 meetings held in the rest of the 8 districts; less than two meetings per year took place in 5 West Bengal tea districts during 2016-…

Warned, yet unprepared

States prone to floods have failed to implement management schemes, finds a performance audit of CAG

Rejection of forest rights claims, poor coverage and missing data; all happening in Odisha

CAG audit makes scathing criticism about the failure of local authorities in creating awareness on FRA provisions amongst forest dwellers

New Bill, old problems

The government is considering setting up a new authority to regulate civil nuclear facilities, saying it will be autonomous and more powerful …

State of malnourished children

CAG’s latest report blames poor management of anganwadis in Gujarat for the problem

All about mobile spectrum

India’s demand for mobile phones is almost insatiable. Telecom companies are falling over themselves to cash in on it, even if it means …

Andhra Pradesh cancels land allotted for SEZ in Anantapur

The company, Lepakshi Knowledge Hub Limited, mortgaged land for bank loans violating MoU

Jungle raj

CAG memo shows IFS officers are administering country’s premier forestry research body like a fiefdom

Development handcuffed

Confidential audit exposes financial, planning lapses in Andhra’s urban renewal mission

Afforestation interrupted

Environment ministry fails to use funds for afforestation, monitor forest diversions: Comptroller and Auditor General

Stink in the leather belt

Calcutta Leather Complex has shifted from the heart of the city to the outskirts on Supreme Court order, but it fails to treat toxic effluent and …

Coal quandary

In a sweeping pronouncement, the Supreme Court has termed all the 218 coal blocks allocated since 1993 illegal. This has raised a fundamental …

Natural highways

The aviation sector is struggling for survival, while roadways and railways are bleeding the treasury dry. Inland navigation is economical and …

CAG report highlights glaring issues with functioning of key scientific institutions

Institute for Plasma Research and Indian Institute of Chemical Technology pulled up

Lean, mean scheme

Budget to start process of reforming Central rural schemes, 45 years after first demand

Lavasa may lose special planning authority status

Comptroller and Auditor General had pulled up developer for illegal expansion plans

NHPC cornered over Subansiri

Reports pick apart NHPC’s hydel project in Assam, call for design overhaul

Job half done

25 per cent funds allocated to national rural employment scheme remain unspent