Useful links on NREGA

Key websites

Other websites

1. 500 Internal Server Error
   Bookmarked on 15.12.2009:

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2. What was govt doing for the last 60 years? Business Standard
   Bookmarked on 01.11.2009:

   Aruna Roy responds to questions on a number of changes being made in NREGA. She also discusses Naxalism and government's proposed response to it.

3. Planning Commission drafting reforms for NREGA – Livemint
   Bookmarked on 22.10.2009:

   Panchayats should be allowed to spend 1/3rd of the administrative costs of NREGA; use of IT must be increased and banking correspondents should be appointed for all Panchayats. These are among recommendations being drafted by the Planning Commission for the Prime Minister on NREGA.

4. The Telegraph
   Bookmarked on 21.10.2009:

   MoRD has plans to let NGOs take up NREGA work. Members of the central employment guaratnee council have opposed this arguing that it would be impossible to maintain accountability in this system.

5. not caste in stone by Sainath in The Hindu
   Bookmarked on 07.10.2009:

   When NREGS works well, it can challenge caste structures. This article provides a short overview of how NREGS matters for the lives of farmers and labourers in Andhra Pradesh.

6. Electronic benefit transfer for NREGA payments
   Bookmarked on 24.09.2009:

   Orissa signs an MoU with State Bank of India to make NREGA wage payments. This article provides a brief background to the plan.

7. Panel for private rural jobs – The Telegraph
   Bookmarked on 24.09.2009:

   GoI appoints a committee to evolve norms for NREGA works to be taken up in private lands. Some activists have expressed reservations on the proposal.

8. Farmers demand suspending NREGS during farming season
   Bookmarked on 20.09.2009:

   Farmers argue that NREGS should be suspended during the harvest season.

9. Concept of NREGS-II doing the rounds in policy circles by Narayan Lakshman in The Hindu
   Bookmarked on 12.09.2009:

   covers a set of suggestions for reforming NREGA by Professor MS Swaminathan and others

10. NREGS architects slam UPA-II for deviating from norms
    Bookmarked on 11.09.2009:

    Jean Dreze, Aruna Roy criticize UPA-II for deviating from some of the essential principles of NREGA.

11. Govt to include fisheries and carpentry-Policy-TV-Economic Times
    Bookmarked on 09.09.2009:

12. Taking goals of NREGA-I forward by Mihir Shah in The Hindu
    Bookmarked on 09.09.2009:

    Envisioning NREGA-II is key to realise the unfulfilled dreams of NREGA-I, which has failed thus far to break free from a debilitating past.

13. Dalits, the poor and the NREGA by Aruna Roy & Nikhil Dey in The Hindu
    Bookmarked on 09.09.2009:

    Before tinkering with the NREGA in the name of reforms, the government must ensure that the foundations of the scheme are strengthened. No change should be introduced without a rigorous debate that centrally involves its primary constituents.

14. Govt to cap NREGA wage at Rs 100 for its entire term – India – NEWS – The Times of India
    Bookmarked on 09.09.2009:

15. Employment Guarantee Act
    Bookmarked on 03.09.2009:

    RFC's section on NREGA contains a lot of background information, tools for action, news, articles, reports from the field and other information. This is perhaps the most comprehensive source of information on NREGA online.

16. Official GoI website on NREGA
    Bookmarked on 03.09.2009:

    Website maintained by Ministry of Rural Development. Contains official circulars and other information on the scheme.

17. Resources and Publications
    Bookmarked on 15.08.2009:

    Articles, manuals and other resources produced by SPS at Bagli Madhya Pradesh. Good resource on NREGA, watershed management and related issues.

18. Orissa NREGA Watch
    Bookmarked on 25.10.2007:

    E group of the Orissa NREGA watch

19. New Deal Art
    Bookmarked on 03.07.2007:

    A large list of places across USA that were created by the Works Project Administration or by other New Deal Projects. Concentrates most on Art projects.

20. Why Are We Determined to Get Our Basics Wrong All the Time?
    Bookmarked on 17.11.2006:

    Argues that concerns of labourers cannot be met by employment programmes.

21. What will data have to do with it
    Bookmarked on 23.10.2006:

    On policies taken inspite of evidence, and what evidence he talks of!

22. Ships that leak and sink
    Bookmarked on 18.10.2006:

    Bibek Debroy's article on EGA