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Far from failure (Source: Frontline)
Speaking about the performance of NREGA, Jayati Ghose emphasized that, "THE National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) - the only successful flagship programme of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government - is under attack. In the past month, the media have been full of reports that the scheme has provided jobs to only 3 per cent of those eligible, that it has led to colossal waste and diversion of funds and that it is a corrupt and inefficient exercise of a doddering government. Criticism of the NREGP is not new; even when the NREG Act was being formulated, there was protest among those who felt that the money would be dissipated in local-level corruption and the scheme would result in a massive wastage of public resources. Hugely inflated projections of the likely cost were presented without any statistical backing, and it was argued that the country simply could not afford such an expensive and wasteful programme."

Best of bad choices (Source : Indian Express)
The NREGS has the capacity to create social asserts- check-dams, reclaimed waste-lands with trees etc. By being gender neutral, it is conducive to the liberation of the enormous reservoir of human capital in our female work force Says Jaithirth Rao.

Rural India learns to cut job risk
The shift will ensure that income in rural households is not choked with a failed monsoon, Pronab Sen secretary, ministry of statistics and programme implementation, told FE. "Job opportunities are no more as scarce as it used to be, thanks to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)," he said, adding that India being an agrarian society a major shift from agriculture may not be feasible.

Transparency and accountability and a must in the implementation process of rural development programme- Dr Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (Source: PIB )
The minister reiterated that in order to provide Guaranteed 100 Days Employment, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 2005 was notified on 7th September 2005 and launched on 2nd February 2006 in 200 identified districts in 27 States in its first phase of implementation and 130 additional districts in 2007-08. All the districts of the country would be covered w. e. f. 1st April 2008. On the reported shortcoming in the implementation part of Dr. Singh said it is the duty of State Governments to enact NREGA in letter and spirit and it should have to be ensured that utmost transparency be adopted during the entire process.

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