NREGA policy Is it a success to bring up the standard of the neglected poor villagers

[neerajchauhan]

May be it will help but, how much is this going to cost India ? and where is the money going to come from ? as start, an older, similar programme the National Food for work programme here is going to be converted into the employment guarantee scheme. All the money that was earlier supposed to be spent on the food programme will be switched over to the work programme.

All this sounds wonderful on paper but many people have expressed doubts over whether the NREGA will actually work. Maharashtra began a similar scheme some time ago,which ran in to lots of problems. The biggest problem was corruption.

 

[neerajchauhan]

Corrupt government officials and middlemen started faking work, taking advantage of illiterate workers by not paying them their due, or even just taking their names, inventing work and claiming their money and since the poorest people could not read or write, they didn’t know that they were entitled to this money, or that their names were being used.


Even if they did know, they could not do anything about it, their poverty made them powerless. The fear is that this situation could now be repeated all over India in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.


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