MREGA- A Ray of New Hope

Two years ago Biswajeet lost his job and his family was forced to eat once in a day and his children were called off from school. Now he can afford three meals a day and today his elder son, who is in 4th grade, stood first in his class. MREGA brought this change into their life.
On 25 august 2005, the UPA coalition government brought the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act. The act aims at providing guaranteed employment to the unemployed adult members of a family for 100 days with a minimum wages of Rs. 100 per day. The act was passed to fight with one of the major predicament in the path of development of the country i.e. unemployment. “I was not been able to find any job after my field was destroyed because of heavy rains, this scheme provides the food for my children” told Chandan, a farmer in Ferozepur who was benefitted by MREGA.
“The government scheme helped me send my children back to school” told Biswajeet. “However three months employment is not enough. The government should increase the number of days so that a person can at least have enough time to save some money to get back on his feet.” he further added.
The scheme till now has provided employment to 3.57 crore household and in the financial year 2009-10 the government is planning to spend Rs. 39,100 crores ($8 billion) for the scheme. The process of getting registered for the employment scheme is very easy and simple. “The people who come for employment registration needs to give the information about their name, address, age and 2 photographs in the gram panchayat office of their district” told by a gram Panchayat worker. After the submission of the details a job card is issued to the registered person. If the government fails to provide the job in 15 days, they will provide the person with the unemployment remuneration.
The scheme also includes the agenda of women empowerment and thus one third of the employees will be women according to the act. “I get employment because of the scheme. Now I can also earn with my husband and can provide better facilities to my family” Said Priyanka.
There is no discrimination based on gender under this scheme. Each and every employee irrespective of being male and female gets equal wages. “We all get wages same as others get. No one is paid more or less” told Sangeeta.

“Earlier we were not been able to even have one time proper meal but now every member of the family is properly fed” said Puspa Rani. This is the case with every unemployed of the country. Unemployment and poverty are a part of vicious circle wherein once one entered will not been able to come out ever. The country will become developed when each and everyone present in the country will developed. Despite being the fastest growing economy we still are developing and not become developed just because there is the development of only half of the country’s population, the other half is doomed and is living in the well of poverty, unemployment and illiteracy. But the step taken by the government will help many to come out of this vicious circle and darkened well to start a new innings of their life.

Life in an old age home

The winner is…..

The case study of three websites that are MNSBC, THE HINDU and THE TIMES OF INDIA was very interesting and gave me a thorough understanding as what makes a website good or bad. While analyzing the above mention websites I realized that how the difference in the working ideologies can be make out from the ways of presentation.

MNSBC

MNSBC is a news company based in United States and Canada and has CNBC and some others as its sister concerns.
The website layout and design of MNSBC is good and gives you a smooth and nice read but the less use of colours and an uneasy navigation made you to leave the website as early as you can. Thus, MNSBC fails to hold the reader to its website.

THE HINDU

The Hindu owned by the Hindu group (Kasturi & Sons Ltd) is one of a very popular newspaper for its content and style of writing. This shows on their website too. The hidu.com is jam-packed of content but is very low on the visual content. This makes the whole website monotonous and boring. The visual content always provides a breathing space and relaxation to the eye of the reader but the Hindu fails to provide this to its readers. Moreover the website has very less colours which add more monotony for the readers.

THE TIMES OF INDIA

The times of India owned by Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd is one of the leading newspaper of India with a very high circulation in metro cities. This website is rich in both news content as well as visual content. As times of India own a news channel (Times now) also it helps them in providing with the news visuals and videos so you can read or watch particular news, interview. This gives your mind and eyes some relaxation as well as a better understanding of the event. The whole website is colourful and thus attracts a viewer very easily. The navigation is also very simple and therefore it maintains a hold on it readers. The various subheadings and levels make trouble free to read the particular story one wants to read. The level of interactivity is also very high and the use of simple language pulls the reader toward this website.

In whole I thing the best website among these three is TIMES OF INDIA.COM.

IMPERIO, CRUCIO AND FINALLY AVADA KEDAVRA

First I was made to submit myself than tortured and then finally brutally murdered in the realms of JAMIA. Waking up with a call at midnight telling me I got admission in JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA I congrats myself that it was just a nightmare and my dream of getting into the Jamia has come true, but who could tell than that this happiness is so short lived.

My sweetest dream and my nightmare both come true on a single day (10 august, 2009). I got admission into JAMIA or that I thought but now say I got myself captured in AJKMCRC because these two are different parts of the world existed in different universes altogether.

My first week at ajkmcrc was really hectic because of the several hours now I need to spend traveling (minimum 4hrs, 30 minutes daily) and quite boring sessions of same introduction in different ways. The first few classes were also not very interesting though promised by our gracious teachers that they will become interesting, for god sake they do. In between this chaotic new college life I couldn’t find time to look for a room in a nearby area or for that matter visiting the library. But I am trying to cope up and manage my time accordingly if I am left with some.

After going on and on about some bad phases there are some good things too like the campus though we didn’t get enough time to stroll around it and our mid-break and after class sessions at FX with my interesting and enthusiastic class mates were the only lifesaving part of my new college life till now. The practical classes are also very interesting and break the monotony of sitting into the class room.

As some of our seniors mentioned that we will get used to this hectic life soon I am trying my best to do so. God knows till when i'll get used to it completely I hope soon……