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MNREGA hasn’t just generated jobs – it has created forests, ponds, wells and changed lives -Krushna Ranaware

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Thanks to the law, workers have built roads where there were none, replaced scrublands with forests, levelled lands and made them cultivable.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act envisages that the works undertaken under it will strengthen natural resource management and address causes of chronic poverty like drought, deforestation and soil erosion, thereby encouraging sustainable development. However, the fact that it is not simply a work creation programme but derives its legitimacy from being an asset creation programme is often overlooked.

Contrary to the notion that people are paid for simply standing around at work sites or that the MGNREGA merely involves some digging, workers have built roads to farms and fields where there were none. They have replaced scrublands with forests, built earthen structures for collecting water and preventing soil erosion, cleared lands and levelled them to make them cultivable.

Several research studies have indicated that assets created under the MGNREGA are beneficial in terms of reduced soil erosion, increased water availability, groundwater recharge, biomass, and savings in diesel costs due to increased availability of water.

In this photo essay, we share a few examples of these assets, mainly from Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. These are examples of what the MGNREGA can achieve and has achieved. The photos and text presented here were collected over two years by researchers from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research and their collaborators during field visits focused on learning about the MGNREGA. This photo essay has been compiled by Krushna Ranaware.

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Scroll.in, 8 July, 2015