Nregs Activist

Maoist sympathisers have strongly condemned the brutal murder of Niyamat Ansari, a National Rural Employment Gurantee Scheme (NREGS) activist, after he was beaten to death just over a week ago by an armed group of the red rebels.Prominent sympathisers like Aruna Roy, Arundhati Roy and Swami Agnivesh among others, in a statement, criticised the kill...

In yet another instance of how whistleblowers are targeted in the country, an activist, Niyamat Ansari, who worked for the implementation of the NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme), was beaten to death in Jharkhand's Latehar district.It all started after Ansari and his friends, on February 20, exposed a case of brazen embezzlement of...

Magsaysay award winner and activist Sandeep Pandey has decided to return the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) achievement award along with the cash award of Rs 44,000 that was presented to him in February 2009.  In a letter to Rural Development Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, he said that he is returning the award as no action ha...

Maoist sympathisers have strongly condemned the brutal murder of Niyamat Ansari, a National Rural Employment Gurantee Scheme (NREGS) activist, after he was beaten to death just over a week ago by an armed group of the red rebels.Prominent sympathisers like Aruna Roy, Arundhati Roy and Swami Agnivesh among others, in a statement, criticised the kill...

In yet another instance of how whistleblowers are targeted in the country, an activist, Niyamat Ansari, who worked for the implementation of the NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme), was beaten to death in Jharkhand's Latehar district.It all started after Ansari and his friends, on February 20, exposed a case of brazen embezzlement of...

Magsaysay award winner and activist Sandeep Pandey has decided to return the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) achievement award along with the cash award of Rs 44,000 that was presented to him in February 2009.  In a letter to Rural Development Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, he said that he is returning the award as no action ha...