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Employment Guarantee Act: Briefing Materials
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 and manuals
- Rozgar
Guarantee Kanoon 2005 (published on May 2007) : a primer on
the NREGA [Hindi]
- WatershedWorks
Manual - NREGA
- Kya
kahta hai Rozgar Guarantee Kanoon 2005: a primer on the NREGA
prepared by the Mazdoor Kisan Samiti [Hindi]
- EGA Primer (revised May 2005)
- 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.
- Draft National Employment Guarantee Act: Text and comments
[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.
- Draft National Rural Employment Guarantee Act [English]
[Hindi]
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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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 Drze 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.
-
Kam
Ka Adhikar
This booklet by Panini Anand explores basic issues related
to the employment guarantee
- 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
- Brief note
on Employment Guarantee in Hindi
This note is the one-page version of "Adhikar ka adhikar - kam ka adhikar".
- Har Hath
Ko Kam Do
- 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).
- Aap kya kar sakte
hain
Factsheets and Briefing notes
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bhuk se mukthi:
Har vyakti ka adhikar
- Har hath ko
kam do; kam ka poora dam do
- Sab ke liye
kam
- Machine
hatao, mazdoor lagao
Last updated: 30 August 2007
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