The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council has asked the government to ensure that over one crore workers enrolled under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) should get Wages as per minimum Wages applicable in different states. As of now, those enrolled in the world’s biggest job guarantee scheme in 19 states get Wages less than what has been prescribed under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948. In some states,...
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Row over the minimum wage under NREGS by Rupashree Nanda
It is the latest face off between Sonia Gandhi led National Advisory Council and Manmohan Singh led UPA government. The Council and the Rural Development Ministry have come to blows over what should be the minimum wage under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The NAC's resolution that endorses the urgent need for increasing Wages is in direct conflict with the position taken by the Rural Developemnt Ministry. At the heart...
More »Rural reality by CT Kurien
A meticulous study of the agrarian relations in three villages. ONE of our senior sociologists once drew my attention to the distinction between economics and other social sciences. Other social sciences – sociology and anthropology, for instance – he said, pay a great deal of attention to gathering primary data and interpreting them, whereas economics relies on secondary data for its analysis. This is, to a large extent, a fair...
More »Food will never become cheaper as expenses rise by Nidhi Nath Srinivas
Never mind wishful thinking by the government and RBI. Food will never be cheaper than what it is today. Not this year. Or in future. The reason is simple. Growing food in India has become extremely expensive. Crops are pricier even before they reach the market and face the pulls and tugs of rising local demand and exports. The farmer’s single biggest cost now is labour. Farm labour Wages have doubled...
More »NREGA vs Minimum Wages Act by Sreelatha Menon
Can the government break its own laws? That seems to be the case when it comes to minimum Wages in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), which makes the government the employer of the world’s largest workforce of close to 35 million job-card holders. In 19 states, the workers are getting less than the minimum Wages in their areas, with the rural development ministry and the labour ministry looking the...
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