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CAMPAIGN MATERIALS on Employment Guarantee

This section contains a growing collection of campaign materials on the demand for "employment guarantee". Please consider using this material, suitably adapted and/or translated, to spread awareness of the issue in your own organisation or area. Printed copies of many of these can be obtained at cost price. Send a line to righttofood@gmail.com if you are interested.

Booklets

  1. EGA Primer (revised May 2005)
  2. EGA made simple - A primer on employment guarantee [Hindi]

    This primer provides a convenient introduction to the Employment Guarantee Act, written in simple question-answer form. This can be printed as a pocket book and distributed widely at a low cost, after translation in local language if necessary.

  3. Draft National Employment Guarantee Act: Text and comments
    4. [English] [Hindi]

    This booklet contains the draft Act, it summary and comments received on the Act. This is suitable for people who wish to read the Act in deatil. It is a particularly useful material to present to people with academic orientation.

  4. Draft National Rural Employment Guarantee Act [English] [Hindi]

    5. This is a draft EGA for rural areas, prepared by concerned citizens on the basis of extensive consultations. For more details click here.

    For a two-page summary of this draft, particularly convenient for the purpose of holding public discussions, click here. For a Hindi translation, click here. With minor modifications the summary can be distributed as a pamphlet.

  5. Sourcebook for the Convention on Right to work (Sept 19, 2004) [Hindi]

    The sourcebook contains a briefing note, the draft act (sept 1, 2004), comments received on the draft Act, and an article on the EGA by Jayati Ghosh. To buy printed copies at cost price, send a line to righttofoodindia@gmail.com

  6. Proceedings of the Convention on Right to Work (September 19, 2004) (Hindi)

    These are proceedings of the Convention on the Right to Work prepared by Sachin Jain.

  7. Work for All at a Living Wage: Towards an Employment Guarantee Act
    This booklet was prepared in January 2004 for the World Social Forum in Mumbai. It includes the note received from the Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity, along with an article by Jean Drèze articulating the basic rationale for a legally guaranteed "right to work". In addition, it includes a description of the salient features of Maharashtra's EGA (provided by the Government of Maharashtra); a summary of the draft Rajasthan EGA prepared by citizen's groups; and a Hindi pamphlet on the right to work.

  8. Kam Ka Adhikar

    This booklet by Panini Anand explores basic issues related to the employment guarantee

  9. Adhikar Ka Adhikar - Kam ka adhikar

    This note by Ram Bahadur Verma can be easily converted into a pamphlet, folder or a pocket booklet. It gives a brief introuction to employment guarantee and can be used as a briefing material.

    Pamphlets

  10. Brief note on Employment Guarantee in Hindi

    This note is the one-page version of "Adhikar ka adhikar - kam ka adhikar".

  11. Har Hath Ko Kam Do


  12. Summary of Draft National Rural Employment Guarantee Act [Hindi] [English]

    This is a summary of draft EGA for rural areas, prepared by concerned citizens on the basis of extensive consultations (click here for further details).
  13. Aap kya kar sakte hain

    14. Factsheets and Briefing notes

  14. Factsheet on employment guarantee

    There are several versions of factsheets on employment guarantee prepared by different people. This version was prepared by Anuradha Talwar for the Convention on EGA (19 Sept 2004) is the latest in the series.

  15. Briefing Note on the Right to Work
    This preliminary briefing note was prepared in April 2003. It examines the content, working, and impact of Maharashtra's pioneering "employment guarantee scheme", makes the case for a similar employment guarantee programme at the national level.

  16. Factsheet on the Right to Work and Employment Guarantee
    This note puts the current demands for a "right to work" in historical context. It argues that a legal entitlement to work is preferable to the current plethora of ad hoc employment schemes, and estimates the annual costs of supporting such an entitlement to be 1.5-2% of the GDP. It was received from Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity in April 2003

    Posters

    A series containing fourteen posters has been prepared on various themes relating to right to food, including employment guarantee. You can obtain a CD with soft copies of the posters in 'corel draw', or the printed versions of the posters at cost price. If you are interested, please send a line to righttofood@gmail.com. The files are large and will take a long time to download.
  17. Bhuk se mukthi: Har vyakti ka adhikar
  18. Har hath ko kam do; kam ka poora dam do

  19. Sab ke liye kam

  20. Machine hatao, mazdoor lagao

 


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Last updated: 16 September 2005