Articles on Social Policy

Asset creation in private lands using NREGA: Problems & opportunities

Published by Vivek September 24th, 2009 in NREGA and Social Policy. 0 Comments

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is primarily a programme aimed at creating public assets that would be useful for the society at large. When NREGA was created, it relaxed this principle by allowing projects in private lands of selected marginalised communities including SCs and STs. The Minister for Rural Development is now trying to [...]

NREGA for the disabled

Published by Vivek August 15th, 2009 in Human rights, NREGA, Right to food and Social Policy. 0 Comments

NREGA presents an unprecedented opportunity for disabled persons across India to earn a living and to showcase their talents. But as things stand, NREGA is not designed for disabled people to participate in it, but we can change it all with some tweaking.

Will trained workers in Panchayats improve the quality of NREGA?

Published by Vivek August 15th, 2009 in Current Affairs, Governance, NREGA and Social Policy. 3 Comments

Mihir Shah argued in a recent article that trained workers should be appointed in each Panchayat if NREGA has to fulfill its promises. While Panchayats need personnel to implement NREGA, I argue that for the purpose of planning it would be better to create nodal agencies that take up planning sound works in a campaign mode.

India: Union & State budgets search engine

Published by Vivek February 21st, 2008 in Current Affairs, Economics & Economy, Governance, India and Social Policy. 0 Comments

A search engine to search India’s Union budgets and State budgets (available) in one click A wealth of materials is available online today about budgets in India.  Unfortunately they are dispersed across dozens of websites that take time to find.  This search engine will enable to to search official budget websites of Government of India [...]

India: Parliament & Legislative Assemblies search engine

Published by Vivek February 21st, 2008 in Current Affairs, General Interest, Governance, India, Social Policy and Useful Links (by topics). 0 Comments

Search websites of Indian Parliament and most legislative assemblies in one go [inline] [/inline] About the search engine This is a special search engine that searches websites of Indian Parliament, most state assemblies and other government sites that offer content on debates and other proceedings in legislative bodies.  It also includes a few non-governmental sites.  [...]

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