Right to Food Campaign: Employment Guarantee Act

Note: The Employment Guarantee Act has been widely welcomed by political parties, social movements and ordinary people. However, there is also a small but prolific "anti-EGA" lobby, with a particularly strong influence in the corporate media. Writings from both sides are included here in the interest of pluralism; we leave it to the readers to evaluate the arguments on each side.

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May 2009 [top]

Multiplier accelerator synergy in NREGA (Mihir Shah, The Hindu, 30 April 2009) [3 May]

April 2009 [top]

The Wages of Protest (Arundhati Dhuru and Sandeep Pandey, The Hindu, 5 April 2009) [6 April]

March 2009 [top]

Operational Framework of NREGA needs overhaul (Jean Drèze, The Times of India, 30 March 2009) [31 March]
NREGS: A Farce at Latehar (Pradeep Bhargava, India Together, 24 March 2009) [31 March]
Broken Promises (Ashish Ranjan, Tehelka Magazine, Vol 6, Issue 10, 14 March 2009) [31 March]

February 2009 [top]

How safe are NREGS wage payments through banks and post offices? (Pradeep Baisakh, Infochange News and Features, February 2009) [27 February]
Countering the Meltdown: Urban Employment Guarantee (Transparency Review, Volume II No. 1, January-February 2009) [27 February]
Lok Adalat or Joke Adalat? (Jean Drèze and Reetika Khera, The Hindu, 22 February 2009) [25 February]
Work in Progress (Jean Drèze and Christian Oldiges, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 4), 14-27 February 2008) [25 February]
Why the NREGA should not rely on banks (Anirban Kar, Business Standard, 02 February 2008) [25 February]

January 2009 [top]

The Battle for Employment Guarantee (Jean Drèze and Reetika Khera, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008) [12 January]
Alternative to Migration (Kartika Bhatia and Ashish Ranjan, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008) [12 January]
What Works Against Women (Reetika Khera and Nandini Nayak, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008) [12 January]
Banned but still there (Jean Drèze and Reetika Khera, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008) [12 January]
All is not well with the Wells (Kamayani Swami, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008) [12 January]
Accounts of Corruption (Anish Vanaik, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008) [12 January]
Pati Experience (Reetika Khera, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008) [12 January]
Rajasthan way ahead (Reetika Khera and Anish Vanaik, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008) [12 January]
A Scene from the South (Karuna Muthiah, Frontline Volume 26 - Issue 1, 3-16 January 2008) [12 January]

December 2008 [top]

From Accounts to Accountability (Jean Drèze a Reetika Khera, 6 December 2008) [15 December]

October 2008 [top]

Poverty, Migration and National Employment Guarantee Scheme (Sachin Kumar Jain, 2008) [30 November]
Employment Guarantee and Women's Empowerment in Rural India (Navjyoti Jandu, October 2008) [8 October]

September 2008 [top]

NREGA: Andhra Pradesh shows the way (Mihir Shah & Prametheah Ambasta, The Hindu, 8 September 2008) [1 December]
Songs of Hope (Nandini Nayak, The Hindu, 14 September 2008) [30 November]
Poverty, Migration and National Employment Guarantee Scheme (Sachin Kumar Jain, 2008) [30 November]

August 2008 [top]

Q&A: 'Public action powerful guarantee for social security' (Amrith Lal, The Times of India, 29 August 2008) [2 June]
Empowerment Guarantee Act (Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 30 August 2008) [21 September]

July 2008 [top]

NREGA and the death of Tapas Soren (Anish Vanaik, Economic and Political Weekly, 30 July 2008) [21 September]
M.P. Government's tall claims on jobs scheme challenged (Staff Correspondent, The Hindu, 19 July, 2008) [2 June]
Employment Scheme checking Migration (Special Correspondent, The Hindu, 20 July, 2008) [2 June]
NREGA: ship without rudder? (Jean Drèze, The Hindu, 19 July, 2008) [22 July]
NREGA: A Fine Balance (P. Sainath, India Together, 13 July, 2008) [1 December]

June 2008 [top]

More is not enough (Sebastian PT, Outlook Business, 28 June 2008)
Attacking the right to ask (Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey, Indian Express, 14 June 2008)

May 2008 [top]

From the Bottom Up (Yogi Aggarwal, Business India, 18 May 2008) [10 September]

April 2008 [top]

India's Rural Employment Scheme (The Economist (Print Edition), 24 April 2008) [2 June]
Not much of a guarantee (Kaushik Basu, The Hindustan Times, 12 April 2008) [25 July]
India's jobs plan goes nationwide (Mian Ridge, Christian Science Monitor, 8 April 2008) [8 August]

March 2008 [top]

Falling through the cracks (Kiran Bhatty, The Hindu, 16 March, 2008) [15 August]
Governance reform key to NREGA success (Mihir Shah, The Hindu, 14 March 2008)
Nothing Ventured, Nothing learnt (C. P. Bhambhri, india-seminar.com, March 2008) [2 June]
Employment Guarantee, Women's Work and Child Care (Sudha Narayanan, 1 March 2008) [2 June]

February 2008[top]

In Orissa, NREGA is still a ray of hope (Pradeep Baisakh, India Together, 2 February 2008) [2 June]
Two years of NREGA: The Road Ahead (Pramathesh Ambasta, P S Vijay Shankar and Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, 23 February 2008) [15 December]
Corruption guaranteed (Bibhuti Pati, Tehelka.com, 8 February 2008) [4 August]

January 2008 [top]

Lifeline for the rural poor (Hindu, 25 January 2008)
Shivnath Thukral, My Budget Wish! (NDTV Profit, 24 January 2008)
Jean Dr ze, Employment guarantee: beyond propaganda (Hindu, 11 January 2008)
Sowmya Kerbart Sivakumar, Triumph of transparency (Hindu, 6 January 2008)
S. B. Misra, Move beyond spadework (Hindustan Times, 2 January 2008)

December 2007