Right to Food Campaign: Employment Guarantee Act

Right to Food Campaign

Employment Guarantee Act: Current Highlights

One year has passed since the EGA came into force. Since then, there have been a number of reports from the field which provide a glimpse of how the EGA has fared. Here we present the most recent; for more information, consult our archives, articles, or research and writings pages.

Latest additions:

NREGA not just about drought relief, but relief against drought (CSE) [10 August]
CPI(ML) NREG Activist Killed in Jharkhand (CPI-ML statement) [31 July]
Murder of NREGA activist in Palamau [16 June]
- Murder of Lalit Mehta in Palamau: aimless crime or planned intimidation? [Hindi] (Statement by Vikas Sahyog Kendra and others)
- Palamau Report: Enquiry or Cover-up? (statement by Aruna Roy, Bunker Roy, Arundhati Roy, Prabhash Joshi, Harsh Mander and others)
- Attacking the right to ask (Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey, Indian Express, 14 June 2008)

2008

NREGA not just about drought relief, but relief against drought (CSE) [10 August]
Murder of NREGA activist in Palamau [16 June]
- Murder of Lalit Mehta in Palamau: aimless crime or planned intimidation? [Hindi] (statement by Vikas Sahyog Kendra and others)
- Palamau Report: Enquiry or Cover-up? (statement by Aruna Roy, Bunker Roy, Arundhati Roy, Prabhash Joshi, Harsh Mander and others)
- Attacking the right to ask (Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey, Indian Express, 14 June 2008)
CPI(ML) NREG Activist Killed in Jharkhand (CPI-ML statement) [31 July]

Archives: 2007

October
- Social audit in Bolangir, Boudh, and Kalahandi districts (Orissa), 3-13 October, 2007 [29 October]
- Social audits in Sandila and Bharawan blocks, Hardoi district (Uttar Pradesh), 25 November-5 December, 2006 [7 October]
- Social audit of NREGA and MDM in 15 districts (Uttar Pradesh), 2006-7 [7 October]
September
- Government orders on social audits under the NREGA (Panchayati Raj and Rural Development Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh):
  - Guidelines for conducting social audits under the NREGA
  - Responsibility of administrative machinery and norms of expenditure in conduct of social audit [22 November]
August
- Jan Adhikar Yatra (Rajasthan), August 9-26, 2007
July
- Employment guarantee: unfinished agenda (Jean Drèze and Siddhartha Lal, Hindu, 13 July 2007)
- Commendable act (Jean Drèze and Christian Oldiges, Frontline 24:14, July 2007)
- Status of NREGA in Sivaganga district, Tamil Nadu (Letter from Brinda Karat to Shri P. Chidambaram, July 2006)
- Social audit in Villupuram (Tamil Nadu), July 26-August 4, 2007
June
- Social audit in Chitrakoot (Uttar Pradesh), 12 June 2007
- Sambhavnayen apar magar samasyaon ka ambar [Hindi] (Bhanwar Meghwanshi, People's News Network)
- Social audit in Surguja (Chattisgarh), June 2007
May
- Public hearing in Bilaput (Koraput district, Orissa), 26 May 2007
- Social audit in Ranchi (Jharkhand), 14-21 May, 2007
April
- NREGA in Uttar Pradesh (Saikat Datta and Anuradha Raman, April 2007)
February
- Challenging corruption with social audits (Karuna Vakati Aakella, Sowmya Kidambi; EPW, February 2007)
- Hisaab do, jawaab do: report of a State-level convention on the NREGA (Rozgar Huq Abhiyan, Uttar Pradesh, February 2007)

2006

December
- Report of a Conference on the Right to Food and the Right to Life (FIAN-UP, Lucknow, 26 November 2006)
- Hunger and Starvation in Eastern Uttar-Pradesh: Dance of death haunts Mushahars in Kushinagar (V. B. Rawat, 19 December 2006)
- Madhya Pradesh Rozgar Adhikar Sambad Yatra, 1-13 December 2006: concept note and announcement (Madhyanchal Forum, December 2006)
November
- Mick Moore and Vishal Jadhav, The Politics and Bureaucratics of Rural Public Works: Maharashtra’s Employment Guaranteed Scheme (Journal of Development Studies, November 2006)
October
- Press release: Rozgar Adhikar Yatra, Madhya Pradesh, 16-18 October 2006 (NACDOR, October 2006)
- Monitoring and evaluation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme with special focus on gender issues [summary] (Indian School of Women's Studies Development, New Delhi, October 2006)
September
- Status of NREGA in Dindugul district, Tamil Nadu (Right to Food Campaign, Tamil Nadu, September 2006)
- Irregularities found during NREGA survey in Jashpur (Chattisgarh): summary of 'action taken report' (Commissioners to the Supreme Court, September 2006)
- Food rights activists attacked by Block officials (Lakhimpur, district Kheri, UP) [Rozi Roti Samiti (Aim) Lucknow, September 2006]
- Madhya Pradesh Employment Guarantee Scheme: Inclusion of the differently abled (Report prepared by Tanushre Sood of a workshop by Ashagram Trust, Bhopal, 15 September 2006)
- Follow-up of the Fact Finding Report on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Tamil Nadu (TN-FORCES, 25 September 2006)
- Fact Finding Report on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Tamil Nadu (TN-FORCES, 8 September 2006)
- Fact Finding Report on the Status of implementation of scheme under NREGA in Bengabad Block of Giridih District, Jharkhand (Mazdoor Kisan Samiti & Nari Shakti Sangathan, Jharkhand, September 2006)
August
- Monitoring NREGA in Sivaganga district, Tamil Nadu (Right to Food Campaign, Tamil Nadu, August 2006)
- Monitoring NREGA in Villupuram and Cuddalore districts, Tamil Nadu (Right to Food Campaign, Tamil Nadu, August 2006)
- Survey to monitor implementation of the NREGA: Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh (Presentation by Jayati Ghosh to Ministry of Rural Development on a survey by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, 30 August 2006) [Powerpoint]
- Invitation to padyatra and mass social audit (Ananthapur District, Andhra Pradesh, 30 August - 9 September 2006)
- Employment Guarantee Act: Tall Claims and Ground Realities; Soaring Prices, Crumbling Public Distribution System, and the UPA Government [Report of a public hearing organized by the All India Agrarian Labourers' Association (AIALA), 17 August 2006, Jantar Mantar, New Delhi]
- Political Economy of Pre-Launch Preparedness of NREGA in Kerala (Jos Chathukulam and K Gireesan, Centre for Rural Management, Kerala)
July
- A study of the NREGA in Bihar (Institute for Human Development, July 2006)
- Unlocking Human Capital: Entitlements and Governance - a case study (Report of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission, chaired by M. Veerappa Moily, July 2006)
June
- Struggles to ensure employment and minimum wages in Barwani (zip file) [Jan Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan (JADS), June 2006]
- Three-day padyatra by SRIJAN to create awareness on NREGA (SRIJAN, June 2006)
- Implementation of NREGA - Experience so far (zip file) [Participatory Research and Action (PRIA), June 2006]
- Report of social audit at Budiar, Orissa (June 2006)
- Report of workshop on NREGA in Bhawanipatna, Orissa (TRUTH, Rupaayan, Khadya Adhikar Abhijan and Loak Adhikar Samukhiya Kalahandi, June 2006)
- Implementation of NREGA in Bhawanipatna block of Kalahandi (Report of a Yatra undertaken by various organisations in June 2006)
- Comparative chart of State EGA schemes (Tanushree Sood, June 2006)
- Sachin Jain (2006) Poverty, migration & national rural employment guarantee scheme a case study on Sahariya primitive tribal group in Madhya Pradesh (Sachin Jain, June 2006)
May
- Status Report on Implementation of NREGA in Gujarat (Janpath and Sabar Ekta Manch, May 2006)
- Victory for labourers on May Day (ASHA, May 2006)
April
- NREGA vigilance by local groups (Amitabh Mukhopadhyay and Ramit Basu, Lok Sabha Secretariat and Social Watch, New Delhi; United Nations Country Team (India) Solution Exchange: issued 3 April 2006)
- Tribal migration: whither employment guarantee? (Spandan, April 2006)
January
- NREGA Training for Different Stakeholders (Balwantsinh Chawda, State Institute of Rural Development, Ahmedabad; United Nations Country Team (India) Solution Exchange: issued 21 January 2006)

Last updated: 14 August 2008