November
2005

• Integrating
  NREGP with the market (Business Line, 29 November 2005)
  

• Jain,
  Sunil Problems
  in panchayati paradise (Business Standard, 28 November 2005)
  

• Tiwary, Deepti Right
  to Food (Tehelka, 5 November 2005)
  

October
2005

• Eyal,
  Nadav Things
  we can learn from India (Maariv, 31 October 2005)
  

• Sen,
  Amiti PMO
  to keep tabs on key programmes (Financial Express, 25 October
  2005)
  

• Olson,
  Maxine Work
  for pro-poor growth (Economic Times, 20 October 2005)
  

• Chatterjee,
  Manini Spoils
  of the Soil (Indian Express, 16 October 2005)
  

• Karat,
  Brinda Towards
  Implementing the Rural Employment Guarantee Act (People's
  Democracy, 16 October 2005)
  

• Bagchee,
  Aruna Political
  and Administrative Realities of the EGS (Economic and Political
  Weekly, 15 October 2005)
  

• Kannan,
  K. P. Linking
  Guarantee to Human Development (Economic and Political Weekly,
  15 October 2005)
  

• Gopal,
  K. S. Is
  the Euphoria Justified? (Economic and Political Weekly, 15
  October 2005)
  

• Chandra
  Mohan, N. Jobbing
  through to the elections (Sify Online, 5 October 2005)
  

• Menon, A. V. B. A
  Note on National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

September
2005

• Varada
  Rajan, W. R. Employment
  guarantee passed, what next? (The Working Class, September
  2005)
  

• Sridhar,
  V. Bias
  in the criticism (Frontline, September 23)
  

• Sridhar,
  V. Empowering
  the rural poor (Frontline, September 23)
  

• Vardarajan,
  Siddharth Why
  India's poor need an employment guarantee (Interview for ABC
  TV, September 15)
  

• Cherian,
  Thomas Adding
  jobs, but at what cost? (International Herald Tribune,
  September 14)
  

• Chary,
  Venkat R. REGS:
  Grossly Miscalculated? (Hindu Businessline, September 9)
  

• Venu,
  M. K. Leading
  reform is a two-way street (Economic Times, September 6)
  

• Bhalla,
  Surjit Singh Job
  scheme: A means to siphon off money (Rediff, September 5)
  

• Shukla,
  Rajeev Time
  for change (Indian Express, September 2)
  

• Ganapathy, Nirmala
  Rural
  employment bill: World is watching India (Indian Express,
  September 1)
  

August
2005

• Morris,
  Sebastian Employment
  guarantee scheme is a still-born child; try land reforms
  (Financial Express, August 30)
  

• Philipose,
  Pamela Employment
  Guarantee Shield (Indian Express, August 29)
  

• Singh,
  Tavleen Marxists
  begin to see the light, not Sonia (Indian Express, August 28)
  

• Bahuguna,
  Nitin Jugran A
  guarantee to work? (Hindu, August 29)
  

• Gupta,
  Smita A
  very significant legislation: Parliament votes for Rural Employment
  Guarantee (People's Democracy, August 28)
  

• People's
  Victory; Safeguard It (People's Democracy, August 28)
  

• Gaiha,
  Raghav From
  workfare to poverty alleviation (Business Standard, August 27)
  

• Jha,
  Prem Shankar A
  surrender to populism (Domain-B, August 26)
  

• Giveaway
  governance (Indian Express, August 25)
  

• Ganguli,
  Amulya Turn
  left for disaster (Asian Age, August 25)
  

• Chopra,
  Anuj India
  moves to spread wealth (Christian Science Monitor, August 25)
  

• Mehta,
  Pratap Bhanu Sense
  and Consensus (Indian Express, August 24)
  

• Jalan,
  Bimal Wanted:
  A Barefoot Minister (Indian Express, August 24)
  

• LS
  passes Employment Guarantee Bill (Hindu Business Line, August
  24)
  

• Alagh,
  Y. K. A
  scheme in search of a plan (Indian Express, August 24)
  

• Joshi,
  Sharad National
  Employment Guarantee Scheme —
  Well-intentioned, but poorly designed (Hindu Business Line,
  August 24)
  

• Lok
  Sabha passes Rural Employment Bill (Hindustan Times, August 24)
  

• LS
  passes Employment Guarantee Bill (Sify, August 24)
  

• Govt
  rejects BJP move on jobs Bill (Business Standard, August 23)
  

• Vardarajan,
  Sidharth Minimum
  wages must be treated as sacrosant (Hindu, August 23)
  

• Anand,
  Panini Rozgar
  Guarantee vidheyak paarit (BBC Hindi, August 23)
  

• All
  about India's rural job guarantee bill (Rediff, August 22)
  

• Pie
  in the sky? (Economic Times, August 22)
  

• Guarantee
  this (Indian Express, August 20)
  

• Ninan,
  T N Fools
  rush in (Business Standard, August 20)
  

• Ramachandran,
  Nira Taking
  the Bill to the people (Indian Express, August 20)
  

• Answer
  the critics (Financial Express, August 20)
  

• Patnaik,
  Ila Will
  it reduce poverty or fill corrupt pockets? A 7-item reality check
  (Indian Express, August 19)
  

• UPA
  plays its CMP trump card: job Bill (Indian Express, August 19)
  

• Anand,
  Panini Rozgar
  Guarantee vidheyka lok sabha mein pesh (BBC Hindi, August 18)
  

• Sonia
  defends Employment Guarantee Bill (NDTV, August 18)
  

• Pulin
  Nayak Changing
  the face of rural India (Business Standard, August 18)
  

• Amendments
  to jobs Bill criticised (Hindu, August 18)
  

• Left
  leaves imprint on job bill (Indian Express, August 18)
  

• Chatterjee,
  Mohua and Subodh Ghildiyal Employment
  Guarantee Bill gets big boost (Times of India, August 18)
  

• Mandar,
  Harsh The
  Battle Against Hunger (Indian express, August 18)
  

• Employment
  Guarantee Bill to be tabled tomorrow (NDTV, August 17)
  

• Govt,
  Left sort out differences over employment scheme (Hindu, August
  17)
  

• Farooqui,
  Mahmood Redeeming
  a pledge (Indian Express, August 17)
  

• EGS
  muster roll will now be a public document (Indian Express,
  August 17)
  

• Job
  guarantee Bill to be presented today (Financial Express, August
  17)
  

• Aarthi
  Ramachandran Jobs
  guarantee Bill may be tabled today (Business Standard, August
  17)
  

• Left
  parties find difficulties in Employment Guarantee Bill
  (Malayali Manorama, August 16)
  

• Roy,
  Aruna and Nikhil Dey Guaranteeing
  action for employment (Hindu, August 15)
  

• Mehta,
  Vinod Shining
  Shame (scroll down for article) (Outlook, August 15)
  

• Gupta,
  Smita Parliament
  Panel Slams Employment Bill (People's Democracy, August 14)
  

• Dasgupta,
  Swapan Rename
  REGA as Corruption Guarantee Scheme (Pioneer, August 14)
  

• Drèze,
  Jean Time
  to Clean Up (Times of India, August 13)
  

• Drèze,
  Jean Employment
  Guarantee and its Discontents (published as "Totally Off
  Target" in Times of India, August 12)
  

• Kundu,
  Amitabh and Niranjan Sarangi Issues
  of Urban Exclusion (Economic and Political Weekly, August 13)
  

• A
  Vaidyanathan Need
  for involvement of States (Economic and Political Weekly,
  August 13)
  

• Jain,
  L. C. Putting
  Panchayats in charge (Economic and Political Weekly, August 13)
  

• Kapoor,
  Ravi Shanker A
  Recipe for Disaster (Indian Express, August 12)
  

• Jha,
  Prem Shankar Deliver
  Us From the Abyss (Outlook, August 12)
  

• Mohan,
  N. Chandra Loot
  for Work Programme? (Outlook, August 11)
  

• Can
  India support the rural employment plan? (Times of India,
  August 10)
  

• Solapur's
  sieve (Indian Express, August 9)
  

• Keskar,
  Prasanna Kumar Lesson
  for Delhi? In model state, 9-cr job scheme fraud (Indian
  Express, August 8)
  

• Times
  of India Editorial, Down
  to Earth (Times of India, August 8)
  

• Dogra,
  Bharat Jobs
  and Options (Times of India, August 8)
  

• Chakraverti,
  Sauvik Employment
  Guarantee a Hoax (Indian Express, August 6)
  

• Chenoy,
  Kamal Mitra No
  Capital without Labour (Indian Express, August 6)
  

• EPW
  Editorial, Employment
  Guarantee: Setting Legislation Right (EPW, August 6)
  

• Patnaik,
  Utsa It
  is time for Kumbhakarna to wake up (Hindu, August 5)
  

• Singh, Mamta Jobs
  scheme exposed (Business Standard, August 3)
  

July
2005

• Compounding
  the folly (Financial Express, July 30)
  

• Moily,
  Veerappa Be
  creative on EGS aim (Financial Express, July 30)
  

• Standing
  Committee for making employment guarantee "universal"
  (Yahoo News, July 27)
  

• Bidwai,
  Praful Empowering
  the poor: for a Job Guarantee Act

• Bidwai,
  Praful Creating
  a right to work

• Datta, Saikat A
  Crying Shame (Outlook)
  

June
2005

• Anand,
  Panini Chhattisgarh
  mein rozgar yatra par lathicharge (BBC Hindi, June 5)
  

• Sajha Manch Freedom
  to Work (Discussion paper)
  

May
2005

• SEWA,
  May
  Day Demand: Rural Employment Guarantee Act (We, the Self
  Employed, May 2005)
  

• Narain,
  Sunita, Fixing
  the employment Bill (Business Standard, May 24, 2005)
  

• Anand, Panini Rozgar
  guarantee kanoon ko lekar yatra shuru (BBC Hindi, May 13)
  

April
2005

• Mukesh
  Eswaran, Ashok Kotwal, Debraj Ray, and E. Somanathan, In
  Defence of the Employment Guarantee Act (April 2005)
  

• Dogra,
  Bharat, Rural
  Wage Employment Schemes: Rhetoric and Reality (April 2005)
  

• Birhman, Ravi,
  Employment
  Guarantee: It Can Be Guaranteed (Businessworld, April 18 2005)
  

March
2005

• Backtracking
  on Employment Guarantee (EPW, March 2005)
  

February
2005

• Gupta,
  Smita, National
  Rural Employment Guarantee Bill 2004: Elusive Guarantee, Little
  Employment (Budget Track, February 2005)
  

• Mohanty,
  Siba Sankar, National
  Rural Employment Guarantee Bill 2004: Issues and Concerns
  (Budget Track, February 2005)
  

• Vaidyanathan,
  A., Panchayats
  and Employment Guarantee (The Hindu, February 15, 2005)
  

• Joshi,
  Anuradha, For
  Effective Employment Guarantee (The Hindu, February 8, 2005)
  

• Singh,
  Tavleen, Why
  we are a Poor Rich Country (The Indian Express, February 7,
  2005)
  

• Jha,
  Madan M., EGS
  as Investment, not Welfare (The Indian Express, February 3,
  2005)
  

• Bhaduri,
  Amit, Do
  We Want the Poor to be Employed? (The Telegraph, February 2,
  2005)
  

• Sarkar, Abhirup,
  Employment
  Schemes Must Aim at Enduring Economic Benefits (The Telegraph,
  February 1, 2005)
  

January
2005

• Chamaraj,
  Kathyayini, Time
  to Fulfil Pledges of the Past (Humanscape, January 2005)
  

• Economist,
  The, India's
  Poor Law (January 29, 2005) [reprinted in The Economic Times on
  February 8, 2005]
  

• Amit
  Bhaduri First
  priority - Guaranteeing employment and the right to information
  (EPW, January 22, 2005)
  

• Dhavan,
  Rajeev, The
  Case for Employment Guarantee (The Hindu, January 21, 2005)
  

• Mulji,
  Sudhir, Employment
  Guarantee Scheme (Business Standard, January 20, 2005)
  

• Virmani,
  Arvind, EGS
  as a Means to Greater Ends (The Financial Express, January 20,
  2005)
  

• Bhalla,
  Surjit S., Ten
  Lies and an Act: III (Business Standard, January 8, 2005)
  

• Hasan,
  Zoya, EGA:
  Needed, a Govt Guarantee Act (The Indian Express, January 6,
  2005)
  

• Patnaik,
  Prabhat, Need
  for a Universal EGS (The Hindu, January 5, 2005)
  

• Roy,
  Bunker, 100
  Days That Will Change India (The Indian Express, January 5,
  2005)
  

• Ear
  to the Ground (The Indian Express, January 4, 2005)
  

• Rao,
  Bhanoji, NREG
  Bill: Fine Tuning Will Make it Work Better (Business Line,
  January 4, 2005)
  

• Srinivasan,
  T.N., Guaranteeing
  Employment: A Palliative? (The Hindu, January 3, 2005)
  

• Ghosh,
  Jayati, Back
  to Bashing Subsidies (People's Democracy, January 2, 2005)
  

• Khera,
  Reetika and Aruna Roy, Not
  Everybody Loves a Good Drought (The Hindu, January 2, 2005)
  

• Patnaik,
  Ila, Here,
  Food for Work Does Mean Food & Work (The Indian Express,
  January 2, 2005)
  

• Economist, The,
  Guaranteed
  to Disappoint: Employing the Indian Poor (January 1, 2005)
  [reprinted in The Economic Times on January 5, 2005]
  

2004

December
2004 [top]


• 
  Adiyog (2004) Garibi
  ki kilaf guarantee kanoon (hindi)

• 
  Gupta, Smita, Political
  Will a Prerequisite for Employment Guarantee: Report on SAHMAT
  Convention (Macroscan, December 2004)
  

• 
  Gupta, Smita, Employment
  Guarantee: An Act to Salvage Democracy (Macroscan, December
  2004)
  

• 
  Gupta, Smita, Employment
  Guarantee Act as Smokescreen: Targetting and Wage Flexibility by
  the Backdoor (2004)
  

• 
  Ghosh, Jayati, How
  to pay for the Employment Guarantee (Macroscan, December 2004)
  

• 
  Ghosh, Jayati, The
  Economic Case for Employment Guarantee (Macroscan, December
  2004)
  

• 
  Patnaik, Prabhat, A
  Note on the Resources Needed for an Employment Guarantee Scheme
  (Macroscan, December 2004)
  

• 
  Drèze, Jean, Unemployment
  Guarantee Bill (The Hindu, December 31, 2004)
  

• 
  Bhalla, Surjit S., Ten
  Lies and an Act: II (Business Standard, December 30, 2004)
  

• 
  Long,Simon Guaranteed
  to disappoint (Economist, December 29, 2004)
  

• 
  Acharya, Shankar, Bad
  Ideas are Winning! (Business Standard, December 28, 2004)
  

• 
  Bhaduri, Amit, Guaranteeing
  Employment (The Hindu, December 27, 2004)
  

• 
  Gupta, Smita, National
  Employment Guarantee Bill 2004: UPA's Failed Promise (People's
  Democracy, December 26, 2004)
  

• 
  Agarwal, Siddhartha and Ruchira Saha, Work
  is Worship (The Indian Express, December 25, 2004) [also
  published as Engaging
  Rural India (Financial Express, December 25, 2004)]
  

• 
  Bhalla, Surjit S., Ten
  Lies and an Act: I (Business Standard, December 25, 2004)
  

• 
  Alexander, P.C., Guaranteeing Employment (The Asian Age,
  December 23, 2004)
  

• 
  Bidwai, Praful, UPA
  Betrays its Biggest Promise (The Shillong Times, December 23,
  2004)
  

• 
  Chandra Mohan, N., Guaranteeing
  Work in India's Countryside (The Financial Express, December
  23, 2004)
  

• EGS
  on Govt Face? (The Statesman, December 22, 2004)
  

• The
  Wrongs of a Right (Business Standard, December 22, 2004)
  

• 
  Gaiha, Raghav, No
  100 per cent Guarantee (The Indian Express, December 20, 2004)
  

• Implementation,
  the Key (The Economic Times, December 20, 2004)
  

• 
  Gokarn, Subir, Employer
  of the Last Resort (Business Standard, December 20, 2004)
  

• 
  Mehrotra, Santosh, Can
  India Really Do Without EGS? (The Economic Times, December 20,
  2004)
  

• 
  Aiyar, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria, Poverty
  Reduction by Helicopter (The Times of India, December 19,
  2004)
  

• 
  Gupta, Smita, Promises
  to keep (Frontline, December 18, 2004)
  

• 
  Gupta, Smita, One
  Hundred Days of Solitude (Tehelka, December 18, 2004)
  

• 
  Ninan, T.N., Guaranteeing
  Work (Business Standard, December 18, 2004)
  

• 
  Srinivasa-Raghavan, T.C.A., Can
  the State Really Help the Poor? (Business Standard, December
  18, 2004)
  

• 
  Drèze, Jean, Why
  Should Anyone be Afraid of the Employment Guarantee Act? (The
  Financial Express, December 17, 2004)
  

• 
  Jain, L.C., Work
  is the Crux, so is Self-Governance (The Financial Express,
  December 17, 2004)
  

• 
  Ramanathan, Ramesh, Time
  to Reflect on the Rural Jobs Bill? (The Financial Express,
  December 17, 2004)
  

• 
  Srinivasa-Raghavan, T.C.A., Why
  Drèze, Roy & co. Should Worry (Business Standard,
  December 17, 2004)
  

• Lip
  Service -- Don't Gut the Employment Guarantee Act (The
  Statesman, December 15, 2004)
  

• 
  Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Pranab Bardhan, Food for Thought
  (The Hindustan Times, December 15, 2004)
  

• 
  Rao, Jaithirth, Forget
  Efficiency. Let's Do It (The Indian Express, December 15,
  2004)
  

• 
  Singhvi, Abhishek, Just the Job (The Hindustan Times,
  December 15, 2004)
  

• 
  Sud, Surinder, A
  Watershed for Development (Business Standard, December 14,
  2004)
  

• Rise
  of Civil Society (Business Standard, December 13, 2004)
  

• 
  Venkitaramanan, S., Job
  Schemes Must Effect Grassroots Changes (Business Line,
  December 13, 2004)
  

• 
  Gupta, Smita, Resist
  Dilution Of Employment Guarantee (People's Democracy, December
  12, 2004)
  

• 
  Ahuja, Rajeev, Time
  to Act Upon an Old Promise (The Indian Express, December 11,
  2004)
  

• 
  Bhalla, Surjit S., Corruption
  with a Human Face (Business Standard, December 11, 2004)
  

• 
  Shah, Mihir, National
  Rural Employment Guarantee Act: A Historic Opportunity
  (Economic & Political Weekly, December 11, 2004)
  

• Power
  without Responsibility (The Financial Express, December 10,
  2004)
  

• 
  Karat, Brinda, No
  Jobs Ahead: Dilutions in Employment Law Unacceptable (The
  Times of India, December 10, 2004)
  

• 
  Chamraj, Kathyayini, Empowering
  rural masses (Deccan Herald, Dec 9, 2004)
  

• 
  Patnaik, Ila, Sincere
  about Employment Guarantee? Give up Subsidies You Milk (The
  Indian Express, December 9, 2004)
  

• Narayan, S.,
  Convenience
  of Employment Guarantees (The Financial Express, December 8,
  2004)
  

November
2004

• 
  Acharya, Shankar, Guaranteeing
  Jobs or a Fiscal Crisis? (Business Standard, November 30,
  2004)
  

• 
  Hirway, Indira, Providing
  Employment Guarantee in India: some critical issues (Economic
  and Political Weekly, November 27, 2004)
  

• 
  Raja, D., Employment
  is a Right (The Financial Express, November 24, 2004)
  

• State
  Resistance (The Financial Express, November 23, 2004)
  

• 
  Drèze, Jean, Employment
  as a Social Responsibility (The Hindu, November 22, 2004)
  

• Work
  for the Poor (Economic & Political Weekly, November 20,
  2004)
  

• Food
  for Work: PM Must Ensure its Effective Monitoring (The
  Tribune, November 16, 2004)
  

October
2004

• 
  Jain, Sachin, Politics of EGA (2004)
  

• 
  Jain, Sunil, Making
  an Ass of U and Me (Business Standard, October 25, 2004)
  

• 
  Debroy, Bibek, The
  Rs. 208,000 crore Puzzle (The Indian Express, October 23,
  2004)
  

• Debroy, Bibek,
  Jobs,
  Not the Government's Job (The Indian Express, October 13,
  2004)
  

September
2004

• 
  Reddy, Vijayashankar and Rammanohar, Making
  employment guarantee a reality (2004)
  

• Reddy, C.
  Rammanohar and P. Vijayshankar, Making Employment Guarantee A
  Reality (Seminar, No. 541, September 2004)
  

August
2004

• 
  Shah, Mihir, A
  Workable Right to Employment (The Hindu, August 24, 2004)
  

• Chamaraj,
  Kathyayini, People
  as Puppets (The Hindu, August 22, 2004)
  

July
2004

• 
  Bose, Sukanya, Employment
  Guarantee: A Distant Dream (Macroscan, July 2004)
  

• Ghosh, Jayati,
  Rural
  Employment as Policy Priority (Frontline, July 16, 2004)
  

June
2004

• Chandrashekhar, C.
  P. and Jayati Ghosh, How
  Feasible is the Employment Guarantee (Business Line, June 22,
  2004)
  

May
2004

• Aiyar, Swaminathan
  S. Anklesaria, An
  Expensive Face-Lift? (The Times of India, May 30, 2004)
  

April
2004

• Krishnaraj,
  Maithreyi; Divya Pandey, Aruna Kanchi Does
  EGS Require Restructuring for Poverty Alleviation and Gender
  Equality?: Concept, Design and Delivery System (Economic and
  Political Weekly, 17 April, 2004)