MGNREGA

Staking Claim to Entitlements under MGNREGA

There are internal constraints and structural barriers to women’s claim-making under MGNREGA. Supporting more egalitarian decision-making within the village, designing interventions that can help…
▶28-Aug-2024
Kalyani Raghunathan, Katrina Kosec, Jordan Kyle, Sudha Narayanan, Soumyajit Ray
Book
NREGA: A REPORT ON THE STATES

New Challenges for NREGA in Telangana

Union Government policies, budget cuts, and technological changes to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee programme have made things harder for workers in Telangana, where earlier…
▶20-Dec-2023
Chakradhar Buddha, Anuradha De, Diwakar Mantri
Book
NREGA: A Report on the States

Working of NREGA in Tamil Nadu

Despite the Ministry of Rural Development not always being helpful, Tamil Nadu has managed the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme better than many other states. But much remains to be done if…
▶01-Dec-2023
Karuna M.
Book
NREGA: A Report on the States

Forcing Jharkhand’s Workers out of NREGA

In a poor state where NREGA can be a form of security for casual workers, reduced funding and the centre’s insistence on the use of inappropriate technologies, and an insensitive state bureaucracy…
▶09-Nov-2023
Siraj Dutta

Costs of Centralisation in MGNREGA

The union government’s desire to ensure uniformity of the Management Information System across the country in overseeing MGNREGA has resulted in workers losing income, employment, and access to…
▶12-Jun-2023
Chakradhar Buddha, Venkata Krishna Kagga

Undermining the Legal Guarantee of MGNREGA: Right, Left, and Centre

Governments of every political dispensation have sought to hollow out India’s rural employment guarantee scheme. Only a mass movement that keeps the vulnerable at its centre can make the MGNREGA what…
▶07-Mar-2022
Sowmya Sivakumar

Hunger Grows as India’s Lockdown Kills Jobs

The lockdown has devastated livelihoods at unprecedented levels, causing widespread job losses and hunger. The measures so far will not solve the crisis. India should universalise the PDS, expand…
▶27-May-2020
Rahul Lahoti, Amit Basole, Rosa Abraham, Surbhi Kesar, Paaritosh Nath

Migrants Workers, the Lockdown and the Judiciary

The millions of migrants who have lost their livelihoods have a fundamental right to a life of dignity. The refusal of the Government of India to provide comprehensive support and the Supreme Court’s…
▶07-May-2020
Harsh Mander
Essay

The Continuing Relevance of MGNREGA

For more than five years the Government has been lukewarm towards the MGNREGA. Yet, in the midst of the ongoing slowdown this very programme is a potentially effective instrument that it can and…
▶17-Mar-2020
Sudha Narayanan