Employment Guarantee Act: Archives

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Archives: Proceedings and Reports

The passage of the NREGA in August 2005 was preceded by a great deal of discussion and debate all over the country. Here we collect proceedings and reports from many of the meetings and conventions that were held in this period.

• National Consultation on NREGA and other bills (National Centre for Labour, 24-25 September 2005)
  • National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2004: Dilution of Right to Work? (K. Loganathan, ISED)
  • Suggested Amendments in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2004 (K. Loganathan, ISED)
• Rozgar Adhikar Yatra (May-July 2005)
  • Report of a "Jan Manch" (Delhi, 2 July 2005)
• Employment Guarantees: What Can We Learn from the Maharashtra Experience? A Policy Workshop (Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU, 4-5 April 2005)
  Selected papers
  • Political and Administrative Realities of the EGS (Aruna Bagchee, 2005; subsequently published in EPW, October 2005)
  • Is Local Really Better? Comparing EGS and Locally-Managed Rural Works Programmes in Nasik District (Sanjay Savale, 2005)
  • The Politics and Bureaucratics of Rural Public Works: Maharashtra's Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mick Moore and Vishal Jadhav, 2004)
  • The Employment Guarantee Scheme in Comparative and Historical Perspective (Mick Moore and Vishal Jadhav, 2004)
  • Conclusions
• Objectives of the employment guarantee programme: a roundtable meeting (India Development Foundation and CII)
  • Summary of discussions

• Meeting of Central Trade Unions (IHD, Delhi, 22 March 2005)
  • Resolution on National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill 2004
• National Convention on 'Right to Work' (Kolkata, 12-13 March 2005)
  • Declaration adopted by the National Convention
  • Call For Countrywide United People's Action (Article in People's Democracy)
• Gender Sensitivity of the Employment Guarantee Act (MSSRF, Chennai, 28 January 2005)
  • Recommendations for the Amendment of the Employment Guarantee Act (EGA)
• Convention on Employment Guarantee (Institute for Development Studies, Jaipur 22-23 November 2004)
  • Report of proceedings
• Round table on EGA (IGIDR, Delhi, 6 November 2004)
  • A note on key issues
• Seminar on "Guaranteed Employment For The Rural Poor" (NIRD, Hyderabad, 4-5 November 2004)
  • Recommendations of the Seminar
  • issue-wise Recommendations
  • Decent Work, Women and Family: The Dilemma facing the Employment Guarantee Law (Dr. Kamala Sankaran)
• Convention on Employment Guarantee (SAHMAT, Delhi, 19 October 2004)
  • Report of the convention
  • Resolution on EGA
• Convention on Employment Guarantee (Delhi, 19 September 2004)
  • Draft proceedings of the convention

Last updated: 25 October 2006