NREGA is crucial to rural India in 2021 -Avani Kapur, Harish Damodaran and Yamini Aiyar
Published on Sep 1, 2021
Modified on Sep 6, 2021
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-IDROnline.org While it claims to be a demand-based scheme with an elastic budget, NREGA’s failure to support the rural economy in 2021 indicates otherwise. A comparison of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) demand and supply of work between the first quarter of financial year (FY) 2020, when the national lockdown was in place and the first quarter of FY 2021 when the second wave was at its peak offers a useful window into understanding the extent to which MGNREGS has provided robust support to rural India and the role of the government in ensuring relief and protection to the vulnerable during the deadly second wave. Please click here to read more. |
IDROnline.org, 1 September, 2021, https://idronline.org/article/livelihoods/nrega-is-crucial-to-rural-india-in-2021/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social_media&utm_campaign=Livelihoods_nrega_rural_india
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