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Kerala suggests changes in rural job guarantee scheme

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Thiruvananthapuram: To make rural job guarantee scheme MGNREGS more productive, Kerala has suggested changes in the scheme, said a state minister Thursday.

These changes will be presented at a meeting to be held here Tuesday with union Minister for Rural Development Chaudhary Birender Singh, said state Minister for Rural Development K.C. Joseph. Eight state ministers will also attend the meeting.

“Our request to the Centre has been that states should get the freedom to make suitable changes and we will present our case, based on a detailed study report…,” said Joseph.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has seen close to Rs.2,000 crore being pumped into Kerala in the past three years for the running of the scheme.

“Our major demand is that this should not just be an employment scheme; instead, it should be linked to production. For that, we want segments like animal husbandry, the traditional industries like the handloom and coir to be included. Through this not only will employment be generated, but production in these sectors would also increase,” said Joseph.

He pointed out if dairy activity is also included, Kerala will become self-sufficient in milk production.

Today Kerala has a milk shortfall of three lakh litres. The MGNREGS can bridge this gap. Each and every farmer would be able to get an additional income as people spend a lot of time in this activity. The payment under MGNREGS in the dairy sector could be done by calculating the output of milk that each farmer generates.

“Similarly the handloom and the coir sector also would benefit,” said Joseph. In 2013, Kerala received Rs.910 crore through the MGNREGS but last year the funding fell to Rs.621 crore as certain modifications were made in the programme that related to the nature of work.

“We will insist that under the MGNREGS, up to 40 percent of funds be set aside for buying materials, which will lead to asset creation. What happens now is that the labour cost element is very high and hence the quality of asset created is very poor,” added Joseph.

 

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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