Articles and Op-eds on Employment Guarantee
Employment Guarantee:
Articles and Op-eds
(This page has been sourced
from the website of Right
to Food Campaign India)
Note: The Employment
Guarantee Act has been widely welcomed by political parties, social
movements and ordinary people. However, there is also a small but
prolific "anti-EGA" lobby, with a particularly strong
influence in the corporate media. Writings from both sides are
included here in the interest of pluralism; we leave it to the
readers to evaluate the arguments on each side.
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Karuna
Vakati Aakella, Sowmya Kidambi, Social
Audits in Andhra Pradesh: A Process of Evolution (Economic and
Political Weekly, 24 November 2007) [5 January]
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Jean
Drèze, NREGA:
Dismantling the Contractor Raj (Hindu, 20 November 2007) [4
January]
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Lalit
Mathur, Employment
Guarantee: Progress so Far (Economic and Political Weekly, 29
December 2007) [4 January]
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Yamini Aiyar, A
happy tale from two states (Op-ed, Indian Express, 27 December
2007) [2 January]
Latest
additions
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Lalit Mathur, Employment
Guarantee: Progress so Far (Economic and Political Weekly, 29
December 2007)
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Yamini Aiyar, A
happy tale from two states (Op-ed, Indian Express, 27 December
2007)
December
2007
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Karuna Vakati Aakella, Sowmya Kidambi, Social
Audits in Andhra Pradesh: A Process of Evolution (Economic and
Political Weekly, 24 November 2007)
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Jean Drèze,
NREGA:
Dismantling the Contractor Raj (Hindu, 20 November 2007)
November
2007
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Nirmala Lakshman, The
Hundred Days Basket (Hindu, 14 August 2007)
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State
Government considering creches on NREGA worksites (Hindu, 5
August 2007)
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Jean Drèze
and Sowmya Kidambi, Long
road to employment guarantee (Hindu, 2 August 2007)
August
2007
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Social
audit of job guarantee scheme (Hindu, 24 July 2007)
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Jean Drèze and Siddhartha Lal, Employment
guarantee: unfinished agenda (Jean Drèze and Siddhartha
Lal, Hindu, 13 July 2007)
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Jean Drèze
and Christian Oldiges, Commendable
act (Frontline 24:14, July 2007)
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Pamela Philipose, Future
in a job card (Indian Express, 28 June 2007)
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Avijit Ghosh, New
hope for NREGA from Chhattisgarh (Times of India, 25 June
2007)
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Aditi Nigam, Staff
shortage, delayed wages under NREGA in Ranchi (Financial
Express, 25 June 2007)
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Sambhavnayen
apar magar samasyaon ka ambar [Hindi] (Bhanwar Meghwanshi,
People's News Network)
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Pay
Rs 2 for job guarantee (Financial Express, 5 June 2007)
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Self
defeating game (Telegraph, 5 June 2007)
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Employment
scheme takes its toll on farming (Khaleej Times, 1 June 2007)
June
2007
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Building
Blocks (Hindustan Times, 30 May 2007)
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Am Jigeesh, There's
a bit of sociology in rural jobs (Financial Express, 29 May
2007)
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ATM-type
facility for NREGP beneficiaries (The Hindu, 29 May 2007)
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Mukesh Ranjan, They
don't trust private jobs anymore (Financial Express, 28 May
2007)
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Varun Jaitley, Barwani
gets India's first wages for the jobless (Financial Express,
26 May 2007)
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Koda
passes job plan buck to Munda (Telegraph, 25 May 2007)
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Graft
slur on postmaster (Telegraph, 24 May 2007)
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In
Bilaspur, they've started dreaming again (Financial Express,
24 May 2007)
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Corruption
clouds UPA job scheme (The Indian Express, 23 May 2007)
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Rural
job study reveals sad story (Telegraph, 22 May 2007)
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P. Sainath, NREGP:
no place for single women (Hindu, 22 May 2007)
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Shauvik Ghosh, ATM's
there, but where has the money gone? (Financial Express, 21
May 2007)
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NREGA
audit gets underway in Jharkhand (Financial Express, 19 May
2007)
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Social
audit of job guarantee scheme (Hindu, 15 May 2007)
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Teresa Rehman, An
Infusion Of Hope From Job Guarantee (Tehelka, 12 May 2007)
May
2007
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Saikat Datta, Call
It A National Waste (Outlook, 23 April 2007)
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Saikat Datta, Anuradha Raman and Arindam Mukherjee, A
Ten Foot Trench, Rs 14.50 (Outlook, 9 April 2007)
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John Mary, Too
Late, Too Little (Outlook, 9 April 2007)
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Madhavi Tata, A
Rural Dream? (Outlook, 9 April 2007)
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Mahesh Langa, Staff
crisis hits NREGS at Dangs (Indian Express, 9 April 2007)
April
2007
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Central
scheme reaches right hands in Wayanad (NewIndPress.com, 27
March 2007) [Subscription only]
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Women
to benefit more from NREGP (NewIndPress.com, 27 March 2007)
[Subscription only]
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Social
audits should be given to individuals, not NGOs (Express News
Service, 26 March 2007)
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NREGP
- a pedestal for growth in rural India (MyIRIS, 25 March 2007)
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`Revise
project guidelines' (Hindu, 21 March 2007)
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Now,
NREGP wages through post offices, banks (Hindu, 14 March 2007)
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AIDWA
seeks justice in payment of minimum wages (Hindu, 13 March
2007)
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More
spending on education and health (Economist, 6 March 2007)
[Subscription only]
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Mahesh Langa Dangs
gets second highest fund but utilises the least (Indian
Express Ahmedabad Newsline, 3 March 2007)
March
2007
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Accountable
& powerless (Central Chronicle, 5 February 2007)
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Karuna Vakati
Aakella and Sowmya Kidambi Challenging
corruption with social audits (Economic and Political Weekly,
February 2007)
February
2007
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Jai Prakash Yadav Among
victims are Bihar labourers who had job guarantee cards but no job
(Indian Express, 9 January 2007)
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IndLaw News Hundred
percent muster roll verification for NREGA works (8 January
2007)
January
2007
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Pamela
Philipose, Getting
on with the jobs (Indian Express, 30 December 2006)
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Subodh
Ghildiyal Rural
jobs scheme may get an expansion (Times of India, 22 December
2006)
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Department
of Information and Public Relations, Himachal Pradesh Himachal
planing to implement National Rural Employment Guarantee Act to
complete state (myHimachal, 21 December 2006)
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Tarannum
Manjul No
room for disabled in rural employment scheme (Indian Express,
20 December 2006)
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Pawan
Bali No
guarantee under NREG scheme (CNN-IBN, 17 December 2006)
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Sutirtho
Patranobis UPA
flagship scheme attracts attention (Hindustan Times, 17
December 2006)
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Kiran
Bhatty Job
Guarantee Plan Upsets Rural Pecking Order (Development-India,
15 December 2006)
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Prakash
Louis NREGA
Implementation - II: Birth Pangs in Bihar (Economic and
Political Weekly, 2 December 2006)
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Arun Jacob and
Richard Verghese NREGA
Implementation - I: Reasonable beginning in Palakkad, Kerala
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2 December 2006)
December
2006
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Mick
Moore and Vishal Jadhav, The
Politics and Bureaucratics of Rural Public Works: Maharashtra’s
Employment Guaranteed Scheme (Journal of Development Studies,
November 2006)
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Palak Nandi Working
Model: EGA in Dungarpur (Sunday Express, 5 November 2006)
November
2006
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Meera
Vishvanathan, An
act that works (Times of India, 18 October 2007)
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Waiting
for job card, Dalit family die of hunger in India (Indian
Express, 13 October 2007)
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Etmad
Khan, Poverty
guaranteed (Tehelka, 7 October 2007)
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Jasvir Singh Problem
of wages (Times of India, 3 October 2006)
October
2006
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Tanushree
Sood NREGA:
Challenges in implementation -
Editorial
First
lessons: Focus on NREG programme in poorer states (Financial
Express, 30 September 2006)
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Sonu
Jain Gaps
in implementation stifling NREGA success: Review panel (Indian
Express, 28 September 2006)
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Rajiv
Shah Report
slams state record on rural jobs (Times of India, 15 September
2006)
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Express
News Service On
EGS probe, State gets babus' rap (Indian Express, 12 September
2006)
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Jean Drèze
Employment
Guarantee Inaction (Hindu, 12 September 2006) [pdf]
September
2006
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Sreelatha
Menon Plugging
It (Business Standard, 16 August 2006) [Subscription only]
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UP
a laggard in rural job plan (Times of India, 9 August 2006)
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Sreelatha
Menon Village
`dole` takes baby steps amid apathy, graft (Business
Standard/Rediff, 7 August 2006)
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Gayatri
Sahgal A
Survey of Reality -
Bela Bhatia and Jean
Drèze Employment
Guarantee on the Ground: Insights from Jharkhand (Economic and
Political Weekly, July 22, 2006)
August
2006
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Reetika
Khera Employment
guarantee and migration (17 June 2006)
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Jayati
Ghosh The
Children of Migrant Workers (3 June 2006)
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PRIA Reports
from National Consultation on NREGA (1 June 2006)
June
2006
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Nirmala
Lakshman Employment
guarantee - signs of transformation (Hindu, 11 May 2006)
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Sowmya
Kerbart Sivakumar Walking
with a purpose (Frontline 23:9, May 06-19)
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Kiran Bhatty Rural
Job Guarantee Scheme Passes Muster (Inter Press Service News
Agency, May 3)
May
2006
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Transparency,
Accountability – Using the People's Right to Information for
Proper Implementation of the NREGA (MKSS Rajasthan)
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Sandipan
Sharma Centre
planning EGA wage cut, say activists on ground (Indian Express,
April 28)
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Mohammed
Iqbal Public
vigilance helps to minimise corruption in rural employment
guarantee scheme (Hindu, April 28)
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Avijit Ghosh Job
scheme gets feminised in south Rajasthan (Times of India, April
26)
April
2006
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Krishnamurty,
J Employment
Guarantee and Crisis Response (Economic and Political Weekly, 4
March 2006)A
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Bihar
budget - a drop in the ocean: Rabri (Times of India, 1 March
2006)
March
2006
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Bisht,
Arvind Singh Rural
employment: No guarantee yet (Times of India, 19 February 2006)
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Zora,
Parwani and Kranti Kumara Band-aid
for a social calamity (World Socialist Website, 14 February
2006)
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Anand,
Panini Bharat
mein Rozgar Guarantee Yojana laagu (BBC Hindi, 2 February 2006)
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Anand,
Panini 200
zillon mein rozgar guarantee yojana (BBC Hindi, 2 February
2006)
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Anand,
Panini Kya
hain yojana se judi ashaein (BBC Hindi, 2 February 2006)
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Anand, Panini Rozgar
yojana nahi, rozgar kanoon (BBC Hindi, 2 February 2006)
February
2006
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Sastry,
Trilochan An
autonomous NREG Agency needed (India Together, 29 January 2006)
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Sule, Surekha Gearing
villages up for entitlements (India Together, 12 January 2006)
January
2006
