Useful links on NREGA-2

There has been a lot of conversation off-late on NREGA-2. This page provides links to articles on this topic.

1. 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.

2. 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.

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   Bookmarked on 22.10.2009:

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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. 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.

6. 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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.