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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | MGNREGA: Safety net looks fragile -Divya Trivedi

MGNREGA: Safety net looks fragile -Divya Trivedi

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published Published on Aug 1, 2022   modified Modified on Aug 3, 2022

-Frontline.thehindu.com

Though not the only solution to rural unemployment, it is an important social security measure.

Soon after becoming Prime Minister, Narendra Modi mocked the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Parliament and called it a monumental failure of the United Progressive Alliance government. Interestingly, he added that he would not end the scheme but would keep it alive as a symbol of the Congress’ inability to address poverty.

Five years later, when COVID-19 hit the country, it was MGNREGA that came to the rescue of the rural poor, as a last resort of employment in a crumbling economy. When, in an unprecedented exodus, vast numbers of migrants left the cities to return to their villages, they took recourse to MGNREGA jobs.

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Frontline.thehindu.com, 1 August, 2022, https://frontline.thehindu.com/economy/mgnrega-safety-net-looks-fragile-india-unemployment-crisis/article65674462.ece


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