-The Indian Express India's 2005 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MgNREGA) creates a justiciable "right to work" by promising up to 100 days of wage employment per year to all rural households whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. Employment is provided in public works projects at a stipulated wage. The Central government proposes to allow a greater share of the cost of projects under the scheme to...
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High Rural Wages Have no Bearing on Inflation -Gayathri Nayak
-The Times of India A Reserve Bank of India paper says that the UPA flagship MgNREGA or the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, under which a household is assured of 100 days of wages per year in return for working on various rural development, has not actually contributed to the rise in food inflation as generally perceived. Incidently, the Reserve Bank was among the first to point that the...
More »Saving people’s livelihoods -Sudha Narayanan
-Livemint There are many problems with MgNREGA but little evidence that poor citizens will be better off without it Recent pronouncements of the new government make it clear that it is seeking to alter the essential character of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MgNREGA). Among these prescriptions are that 60% of the works in each district should be devoted to agriculture and that a greater share of the cost...
More »Costs of ignoring hunger -S Mahendra Dev
-The Hindu Ignoring hunger and malnutrition will have significant costs to any country's development. Nutrition improvement has both intrinsic and instrumental value One of the disappointments in the post-reform period in India has been the slow progress in the reduction of malnutrition, especially with reference to the underweight among children. In fact, the rate of change in the percentage of underweight children has been negligible in the period 1998-99 to 2005-06; the...
More »MgNREGA closed in Bihar, says former union minister -Priti Nath Jha
-The Times of India MUZAFFARPUR (Bihar): The Union government has started dumping MgNREGA by restricting the expenditure on wages and also limiting the area where this central project is being implemented in the country, said RJD national vice-president and former Union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh here on Sunday, who had launched the project in February 2006 during his tenure as Union minister for rural development in the UPA regime. Talking to the...
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