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National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Last chance to fight poverty?
•Poverty has increased
• More rural unemployed now than ever
• Schemes to generate employment have failed to retain jobs
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Last chance to fight poverty?
•Focus on capital intensive schemes
• Clinical way of looking at wage schemes
• Local people had no roles to play
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Last chance to fight poverty?
•Natural resource bases like land and forest have shrunk
• They absorb less jobs than ever
• Triggers a BoP
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Last chance to fight poverty?
• Poverty is ecological in nature
• NREGA has the right orientation
• It can be used to create assets that contribute to local livelihoods
• A change in approach needed
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Last chance to fight poverty?
•Backward districts are resource-rich but less governed
• They hold 60 percent of India’s poor
• Local bodies need to be empowered
• Implementation must focus on productive assets
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Last chance to fight poverty?
• NREGA is an effective way to eradicate poverty
• For this we need to understand the poverty in India
• Poverty is ecological in nature
• Thus NREGA needs to be an ecological Act