The announcement National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), demand and pushed aside and non-effort pushed the Union Member of the Planning Commission BN Yugandhar said here Monday.

A fund is created and pooling resources from various systems, such as the National Food for Work, Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana and the region back Grants Fund, said Yugandhar journalists after opening a workshop organized by the Round Table on public expenditure (PERT), Institute of Management Consultants and Madras, India University’s Department of Management Studies, to rethink approaches to the provision of public services.

Prisé as 50 other districts would be chosen for the NREGS (in addition to the 150 covered under the national programme Food for Work Program), he said that the selection of parameters such as GDP per capita agricultural productivity, wages and the population covered Box / Scheduled Tribes. “These parameters are value neutral and acceptable to all States,” he said.

Panchayats village social audit of the money under the regulation.

Earlier, in his address, “said Yugandhar with the introduction of a number of systems, each district was more and more additional funds in an amount of Rs 100 crores of RS. 300 crores per year, without spending plan of the Federal state governments.

He proposed that the resources available with the development of systems constituency Members of Parliament and members of legislatures are used for public financing of elections.

K. Venkataraman, said the chairman of the PERT of the exercise of preparing budgets result would be useful if the system has tainted surrender.

The European Parliament, within the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy voted for the control of heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the air.

Through close margin of the committee adopted a draft legislative proposal with stricter limit values for these substances Chad air as proposed by the European Commission, executive of the European Union.

Wednesday, the Committee voted 26 to 24 with two abstentions, on limits, not only the monitoring requirements set arsenic, cadmium, nickel and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the air, as proposed by the rapporteur Hans Kronberger. In addition, the provisions relating to the limitation of emissions of mercury.

Europe on environmental’s largest organization of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) “welcomes” the decision. “This is an important step towards the European Union for improving air quality and protection of EU citizens against the harmful effects of these toxic metals,” said Kerstin Meyer, Policy Officer, air pollution during the BEE, 143 member organizations in 31 countries.

“The limits are necessary to ensure that people can be safe to breathe the air, whatever the country or neighbourhood in which they live,” said Meyer.

But BEE expressed surprise to see the Liberal members of Parliament, but also a member of the British Labour Party voted against these standards.

The EEB also welcomed the commission’s vote in favour of the introduction of long-term goals for reducing these substances Chad air, he said, the public health.

“The commission has finally voted to ensure that people who breathe toxic waste,” said Roberto Ferrigno, EEB European political scene. “It is ridiculous that the EU does not constitute standards of air quality on the substances which, otherwise, as toxic waste under the European policy on waste and the list of priority hazardous substances in the framework directive on water. ”

The bill is now complete on the European Parliament vote.

PAHs are a group of more than 100 chemicals during the incomplete combustion of coal, oil and gas, waste or other organic substances such as tobacco or charbroiled meat. PAHs are usually as a mixture of two or more of these compounds, such as Russia.

Lab studies have shown PAH causes lung cancer in laboratory animals, if breathing air, and PAHs are also known to cause reproductive problems in laboratory animals.

The World Health Organization has found that inorganic arsenic is human carcinogen. Studies have shown that inorganic arsenic can increase the risk of lung cancer, skin cancer, cancer of the bladder, liver cancer, kidney cancer and prostate cancer.

Breathing very high levels of cadmium damages the lungs and can cause death. Animal studies show that breathing high levels of nickel can cause inflammation of the respiratory tract connections.

The cadmium and nickel and its compounds reasonably expected to be carcinogenic, health officials say.