NREGA needs flexibility, objectives not met in states: Ramesh
11 years, 3 months ago

NREGA needs flexibility, objectives not met in states: Ramesh

The Hindu  

December 15, 2013 08:41 pm | Updated December 04, 2021 11:15 pm IST - New Delhi Batting for bringing flexibility in UPA’s flagship NREGA, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said the scheme has failed to achieve the three objectives of wage employment, creating community assets and empowering gram panchayats at the same time in any state. Giving examples of this, Mr. Ramesh said that while Andhra Pradesh, which is the pace setter for NREGA, has provided wage employment and durable assets, it has simply bypassed the locally elected gram panchayats. Terming migration as “inherent in employment strategy” which creates a whole set of social and political issues, Mr. Ramesh said it has been very clear to him that his ministry can never provide jobs in the areas where youth want them. Elaborating about his ministry’s programme of running special employment programme for unemployed youth in Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Ramesh said that 60 per cent of the jobs that were being provided were outside J&K.

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Committee to evolve new norms for NREGA
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Committee to evolve new norms for NREGA

The Hindu  

The Union government’s approach to widen the scope of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act seems to have met with a number of obstructions. Thus far, the scheme has been successfully implemented in taking up works on community land ensuring guaranteed wage to demanding manual labour. The Ministry of Rural Development has since realised that the character of works taken …

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